Word: subjectively
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Moscow was enraged by a White House report earlier this month that took Communist countries to task for a whole series of violations of the Helsinki provisions on human rights. Defending President Carter's active concern with the subject, the report argued that "interest in human rights does not constitute interference in the internal affairs of other states." In retaliation, the Kremlin denounced the new Administration and Carter personally in the strongest terms yet, stepped up a press campaign to expose human rights abuses (some real, some fancied) in the West, and undertook a new crackdown on human rights...
There has also been much counter-propaganda on human rights, ranging from the legitimate to the preposterous. On the subject of the free flow of ideas, Russian journalists have rightly pointed out that the U.S. has not widely distributed the text of the Helsinki document, as stipulated in the accords. A Warsaw newspaper complained that while Polish TV ran 2.3 hours of American movies every week last year, U.S. viewers were allowed to see only 6.4 hours of Polish films in the entire year...
...wing civil rightists, nut-nibbling food faddists and humanitarians groping for a way to relieve suffering. The crusade is the dark side of the mounting anti-Washington tide, a movement against Government interference in citizens' lives that involves states' rights, freedom of the individual and the fundamental subject of people's health. The question: Should state legislatures make an end run around federal bureaucrats and legalize the use of drugs that the Food and Drug Administration has banned or not yet approved? They are Laetrile, an unproved anticancer nostrum, dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), Gerovital and saccharin...
...feel it had enough information to really discuss the issue. "The proposal was both open ended and dictatorial," he says, adding, "The first question the Faculty Council will ask is what do you mean by women's studies." The Council is always concerned with whether a subject is substantial or not, he says, and points out that similar issues were raised in the debate over the establishment of the Afro-American Studies Department...
...growth. The College can advise all student that a strong Gen Ed background is valuable and important. Nothing more is necessary other than the implementation of a much stronger advisory system. If students are forced into taking these courses they will probably make little attempt to learn from the subject matter...