Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hands of the Khmer Rouge, thousands of Cambodian refugees have chosen possible execution and certain humiliation at the hands of their enemies, the Vietnamese. We should make normalization of relations contingent upon granting those people asylum. If the U.S. is serious about the human rights issue, it is our moral duty to accept the friendship that is obviously being offered by Viet...
...real question was whether Somoza had won the civil war, or merely the first battle in a campaign to oust his dictatorial regime. Although the Sandinistas slipped over into their wilderness hiding places, they had won something of a moral victory. They had shown that most of Nicaragua's 2.6 million people are bitterly anti-Somoza. In town after town, armed only with pistols and hunting rifles, ordinary people ignored danger and risked reprisal to support the guerrillas. In León, an elderly doctor, patching up the wounded, paused long enough to offer this defiant assessment: "Our wounds will never...
Somoza's political opponents include not only the Marxist-oriented Sandinistas but the majority of Nicaragua's business, intellectual and religious leaders as well. They remain convinced that the fighting had exposed both economic and moral lesions that in time will destroy Tacho's nine-year-old regime...
...independence. The Namibian question, after all, was definitely one open to international adjudication; the League of Nations granted the South African government the right to administer the territory in 1919, declaring Namibia a "sacred trust of civilization" and requiring South Africa "to promote to the utmost the material and moral well being of and the social progress of the inhabitants of the territory." Instead, over a period of 60 years, South Africa has steadily moved to impose ever harsher apartheid regulations on Nambia's native population...
Ewart Guinier, professor of Afro-American studies, who spoke at last night's meeting, said the protests of last spring, as well as last night's high turnout, show students "are acutely aware of their responsibilities as moral human beings...