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Article: Bush's Policy on Human Rights Called Shortsighted; White House `Too Ready to Sacrifice' Principle Amid Competing Global Interests, Group Says
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- The Washington Post
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- December 29, 1991
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Human rights around the world took a back seat in the Bush White
House during 1991, the group Human Rights Watch said in its ninth
annual report released yesterday.
Against weak nations where no U.S. economic or political
interests were at stake, the administration took a bold line in
defense of human rights, the New York-based, independent monitoring
organization said. But where competing interests were present, such
as in China, or when maintaining friendly relations with the
authoritarian rulers of oil-rich Kuwait, Saudi Arabia or Indonesia,
the United States turned a blind eye, the report asserted.
"The sad irony is that this policy of devaluation {of moral