Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sucked into the military, in war-time or in peace, are not to blame for and cannot be the focus of our anger and shame at our government's policies. Thus Professor Laurence W. Wylie's labeling of ROTC students as "students who wanted to practice killing their fellow human beings" is deeply disturbing...
...sell or rent to an AIDS carrier unless it can be proven the person would be a direct threat to the health of others. The Grove City Bill makes it unlawful for the recipient of federal funds to discriminate against an AIDS carrier in matters of unemployment, housing, and human services...
...Babbit eloquently pleaded for a more caring American government--pointing out the poignant irony of Chileans who care more about the franchise than Americans jaded by protected freedoms; of a Japanese economy that innovates better than the great original innovating, entrepreneurial power, of Paraguayans who recognize the centrality of human rights more than Americans did under Reagan. He used the success of America's principles in the world to show our own lapses. It was powerful rhetoric, if necessarily incomplete...
...skepticism about the elections was the bloc of 750 seats reserved for official and public organizations. But even there, insurgency reigned. Leaders of the Soviet Academy of Sciences produced a limp slate of 23 nominees for their 20 reserved seats, pointedly excluding physicist Andrei Sakharov, the Nobel laureate and human-rights activist. But the membership voted down 15 of them, which means that the academy's leaders must come up with new candidates, presumably including Sakharov this time. The Soviet Peace Committee, a goodwill and propaganda organization, was allotted five seats. Among those elected by the group was Patriarch Pimen...
Last month a team of 26 U.S. mental-health experts made an unprecedented two-week tour of Soviet psychiatric facilities. Armed with a list compiled by human rights activists of present or former mental patients believed to have been hospitalized unjustly, the delegation interviewed 27 people. The American group, which included psychiatrists, attorneys and a psychologist, has agreed not to discuss its findings publicly until the official report on the trip is issued later this year. At a press conference, the only revealing comment from Dr. Loren Roth, the University of Pittsburgh psychiatrist who led the group, was that...