Word: behinder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when he was still a toddler, was then raised by relatives in one of the grimmest sections in any American city. "I'm nearly a black belt," says Mayo. "I can disarm a man carrying a knife. I've developed a spiritual eye. I can feel you behind me, I can feel your vibes." Arnaldo Salinas, 18, another ghetto child, wants to be an FBI man. "There's not so many Puerto Ricans in the FBI, I think," he says, with a grin gleaming from under a straggly mustache. Carlos Lopez, another Puerto Rican, has just graduated...
...week's end, after several days of public agonizing and behind-the-scenes bickering with the utility companies, the NRC reached a Solomonic decision that was face-saving for everyone. It issued a shutdown agreement, but only after the utilities "voluntarily" offered to suspend operations at the nine B & W plants, including Three Mile Island's disabled reactor. One objective was political: the beleaguered NRC wants to convince critics that it is indeed a vigilant watchdog...
...Evelyn Johnson sued for $20,000 in damages, claiming that the Brown decision had never been put into practice in Topeka and that she was receiving an inferior education. Blacks maintain that the Topeka system permits whites to flee second-rate schools in the inner city, leaving behind lower-income nonwhites who cannot afford to travel long distances to classes...
...they call Judea and Samaria (ancient names for the West Bank), maintained that autonomy applies to the people, but not to the land they live on. Eventually the matter was settled by the drafting of one more supplementary letter, and the ceremony was allowed to proceed, 2½ hours behind schedule. Beneath a rapidly setting sun, Saad Afra, Egypt's Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and Israel's Eliahu Ben-Elissar, Director General of the Premier's Office, formally exchanged the ratified documents, making the treaty official at last...
More than foul weather is behind the slump. Experts on the Soviet economy point out that it has been slowing down for several years. Since 1976, which marked the start of the tenth Five Year Plan, annual growth has averaged 3.9% a year; in the first years of the decade, the average was 6%. The country now faces a serious labor shortage in industrialized areas, productivity has been sagging, and Soviet planners have yet to cope with serious management problems. Says Dimitri Simes, director of Soviet studies at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies: "The Soviets...