Word: youthe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Union remains a closed gate, both forms of anticipation reveal more of ourselves than of the Soviets. For nearly half a century, the West has been a people of gate watchers in regard to the Soviet Union. Once more we address our questions to the gatekeeper: Does his relative youth signal flexibility or merely a longer reign of adamancy? Does his background in agriculture suggest less emphasis on the military? Is this changing of the guard merely plus ca change? No one on the other side answers, of course, so the questions bounce back to us who pose them, rattling...
Quite appropriately, much of the commentary last week dwelled on Gorbachev's relative youth. After all, his age was one of the few things that outsiders knew for sure about him. Even the CIA's biographical file was, according to one agency official, "pathetically thin and unhelpful--a monument to how little we still know about that damn place and the people...
During his nearly four years as TIME's Moscow bureau chief, Erik Amfitheatrof has reported in depth on the KGB, the changing life-styles of Soviet youth, Soviet military strength and scores of other stories. But no subject has preoccupied him more deeply than the waning lives and deaths of the Soviet Union's superannuated rulers. Since November 1982, Amfitheatrof has attended the obsequies for three top Soviet leaders, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko, as well as those for the powerful Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov...
Three days afterward, DEA agents and Mexican police searched the 30-acre ranch and its surroundings but found no sign of Camarena and Zavala. But that evening, a peasant youth discovered the two plastic bags about ten yards from a highway that runs past the Bravo ranch. The corpses had apparently been dumped there after the agents left the ranch. The soil found on the bags was not common to the immediate area. Investigators concluded that the bodies had been buried, disinterred and brought to the ranch so they could be found there...
...balance very few graduates of Harvard or any other upper-middle and top-level college, whatever their ethnicity, will become ghetto elites. This means that increasingly Black graduates of Harvard must find ways to impact positively upon the crises of unemployment (60 percent for Black youth) and societal pathologies (crime, unwed-motherhood, unwed-fatherhood, disorganized neighborhoods) from their position in national or cosmopolitan job markets--in new technology firms, research firms, law firms, multinational corporations, federal and state bureaucracies, etc. Effectiveness at this depends upon many things to be sure, but certainly one crucial factor will be Black elites' ability...