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Publication Type: Review

Source(s): New Republic. 9/6/80-9/13/80, Vol. 183 Issue 10/11, p37-38. 2p.

Abstract: The article reviews several books on human rights including "American Dream/Global Nightmare: The Dilemma of U.S. Human Rights Policy," by Sandy Vogelgesang, "The Political Economy of Human Rights: The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism," vo...

Publication Type: Periodical

Source(s): New Republic; 1/18/19, Vol. 17 Issue 220, p325-327, 3p

Abstract: Focuses on the problem of the rights of national minorities to be dealt with by the Peace Congress. Principal predicament to be solve in the whole area formerly dominated by the Dual Empire, Balkan States and Turkey; National difference between the inh...

Publication Type: Periodical

Source(s): New Republic; 3/17/82, Vol. 186 Issue 11, p13-16, 4p

Abstract: Focuses on the foreign policy of the U.S. towards the crisis in El Salvador. Amendment of the International Security and Development Cooperation Act by the Congress to instruct the President to withhold aid to the government of El Salvador unless that ...

Publication Type: Periodical

Source(s): New Republic. 9/30/78, Vol. 179 Issue 14, p20-21. 2p.

Abstract: Reports that Czechoslovakia remains one of the most tightly-run regimes in Eastern Europe years after a nationwide tide of unrest. Examples of the revelation of the superficial character of the normalization that allegedly has taken place such as the r...

Publication Type: Periodical

Source(s): New Republic; 8/26/46, Vol. 115 Issue 8, p212-214, 3p

Abstract: Presents information on socio-political issues of several nations. Opposition of the U.S. State Department against the "Orr Proposals" for a world, food stabilization plan; Proposal of Herbert V. Evatt, chief Australian representative at Paris, France,...

Publication Type: Periodical

Source(s): New Republic. 5/13/78, Vol. 178 Issue 19, p7-8. 2p.

Abstract: Criticizes the United States government's lack of effort to intervene in the human rights violations in Uganda under the leadership of Idi Amin. Estimated number of people who have been killed since Amin seized power in Uganda; Author's call for the U....

Publication Type: Periodical

Source(s): New Republic. 5/10/93, Vol. 208 Issue 19, p11-12. 2p.

Abstract: Reports on the political violence and human rights violations in Haiti. Possible scenario if negotiations to restore President Jean-Bertrand Aristide would fail; Haitians' practice of "dechoukaj," the violent systematic uprooting of the people from the...

Publication Type: Periodical

Source(s): New Republic; 6/19/2006, Vol. 234 Issue 23, p4-41, 3p, 1 Illustration

Abstract: Letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in former issues of "The New Republic," such as "Pin Prick," by Ryan Lizza and "And Now For Some Facts," by Benny Morris. The letters regard topics such as Senator George Allen and human right...

Publication Type: Periodical

Source(s): New Republic; 2/1/39, Vol. 97 Issue 1261, p366-366, 1/2p

Abstract: Focuses on human rights that have prevailed over property rights. Discussion on the case Kellogg Co. v. National Biscuit Co., in which the Supreme Court struck an epochal blow for liberty; Report on the annoyance of the National Biscuit Co., when it fo...

Publication Type: Periodical

Source(s): New Republic. 5/9/83, Vol. 188 Issue 18, p12-12. 1/2p.

Abstract: Presents information on aspects related to human rights policy. Statement that a human rights policy is not a foreign policy; Reference to the meaning of "Silent diplomacy"; Information that the representatives of the United States in Chile, Paraguay, ...