Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pepper proposal appealed more to the heart than to reason. "This is a day for which I've waited and worked and I might say prayed for 50 years," Pepper declared in an impassioned plea to his colleagues on the day of the vote. "Think about the human values...
...last Congress will hear of long-term health care. Already the elderly absorb $258 billion in federal spending, two-thirds of the Health and Human Services budget. Yet at present there are only 25,000 Americans over the age of 100. By the end of the century, there will...
...abolished a requirement for judicial review of detention orders; appeals were reinstituted only two weeks ago. As of now, well over a third of the 5,000 people jailed for involvement in the intifadeh have not been charged or tried. The detained population includes doctors, lawyers, labor leaders, | students, human-rights activists, close to 30 journalists, as well as hundreds of suspected members of the outlawed Palestine Liberation Organization and the growing Islamic fundamentalist movement...
...Reagan Administration has long been trying to brand Fidel Castro a violator of human rights. But Cuba denies U.S. charges that it holds several thousand political prisoners and that some are being kept in dungeon-like jails and have been tortured. Last week a five-member panel from the International Committee of the Red Cross began a month-long inspection tour of 15 prisons, the first time the organization has been given permission to make such an investigation. The group's first stop was the Boniato jail, where the investigators reportedly found no plantados, the counterrevolutionaries who allegedly have come...
Castro may have decided to permit the ICRC inspection for good reason. Last month Cuba was elected to serve on the United Nations Human Rights Commission, and one of the panel's teams is to visit the island in August...