Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strict conservative who bitterly renounces any kind of struggle against the establishment. Baldwin, however, continues to support the spirit of the civil rights movement from his self-improved exile in France Whereas Baldwin was attacked by some, most notably Cleaver, for his emphasis on education over activism during the 1960s, now it is Cleaver whose commitment to black equality appears tepid. And while their relative militancy has been reversed, the ideological distance between the two Black writers remains extensive...
Viet Nam is one of the poorest countries in the world. As a Vietnamese economist explains, the decade of the 1960s was "a fabulous time for development in the Third World. Here, it was the worst time of the war." Energy is scarce. The country's infrastructure is decrepit. Ten years of inflexible Communist dogma have only hobbled the economy further. Four out of five workers farm, but the ancient techniques are pathetically underproductive. By 1979, famine was a possibility, as disastrous typhoons and war with China hit simultaneously. The country now depends on Moscow for $2 billion a year...
DIED. Jeanne Deckers, fiftyish, former Dominican Sister Luc-Gabrielle who, as Belgium's "Singing Nun," became an unlikely international pop star of the 1960s with her 1963 No. 1 hit Dominique, a 2 million seller, as well as other songs whose treacly lyrics were redeemed by her catchy melodies and high, pure voice; by her own hand (she and her female roommate took an overdose of barbiturates); in Wavre, Belgium. Deckers left her order in 1966 to pursue success in the secular world, but it had already passed her by; the home she set up for autistic children recently closed...
...plan by Soviet Party Boss Mikhail Gorbachev to revitalize the sluggish Soviet economy. Last year's growth in national income, the closest Soviet equivalent to gross national product, was a disappointing 2.6%, down from 3.1% in 1983 and only about half the size of the gains achieved in the 1960s. Many industries, including transportation and communications, are a decade or more behind the West in their use of computers, and that has retarded productivity increases. Moscow now seems to recognize that unless the Soviet Union produces a new generation of industrial engineers, workers and managers who are skilled and comfortable...
...American lexicon of the 1960s and '70s, those words were synonyms for the enemy. In the paddy fields of Indochina, in jungles and deserts and tumbledown villages elsewhere around the world, leftist insurgencies seemed to be the cutting edge of Soviet expansionism, a principal cause of American retreat and defeat...