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...early stage, members of the anti-war movement say the movement is remarkably strong in numbers and very well organized. And they note that in the '60s, it took years of fighting in Vietnam--plus the end of college deferments for the draft--to catalyze the nation's youth into a cohesive protest movement...
Today, even where critics of the peace movement see opportunistic splinter groups, defenders see the beginnings of an inclusive coalition. The fact is that Greenpeace, the Marxist Leninist party, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power and the Spartacist Youth League all made appearances at the Common...
...effort to relay a message of correct living to the youth of the nation, these books often become condescending and annoying. In their least innocuous form they are boring. In the light of their minimal literary worth, one must ask who is buying these books...
Last week the Communist Youth organ Komsomolskaya Pravda baldly confirmed that the military had shifted thousands of tanks and artillery pieces across the Urals into Soviet Asia to spare them from the destruction required under the pact. Economist V. Litov, an international-affairs specialist, wrote in the conservative daily Sovietskaya Rossiya that the moves were needed to "correct the errors" of Shevardnadze's diplomacy. Litov called on legislators to reject the conventional-arms treaty. But Soviet diplomats were aghast. Said the liberal paper Moscow News: "The situation has given rise to understandable fears in the West about...
...youth rebellion of the '60s, the documentary points out, was a logical reaction against the conformist, prosperity-driven, communism-obsessed '50s. The revolt was especially threatening to Middle America because it went beyond politics and challenged the fundamental values of society. And if it ultimately failed to achieve its more grandiose goals, it left its mark in myriad ways, from college ethnic-studies departments to a new role for women. "Maybe the youth rebellion didn't get what it wanted," the narrator asserts. "But perhaps this generation -- and America -- got what it needed." In a program that utilizes music cannily...