Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HAMILTON JORDAN, 30, National Campaign Director. A plump native of Albany, Ga., Jordan wears denim jackets and open-necked shirts. He affects a good-ol'-boy manner but is a coolly professional political operative. In 1966, he was youth coordinator of Carter's first, unsuccessful campaign for Governor, then managed his winning gubernatorial drive in 1970 and became his executive secretary. Jordan describes himself as a late-blooming progressive. A cousin founded Koinonia (Greek for fellowship or communion), a biracial farm in southwestern Georgia that deeply offended Ku Klux Klan members and other white racists in the 1940s...
...members of the Spartacus Youth League, a Trotskyist organization, yesterday picketed Austin Hall at the Law School in protest of the announced speaking appearance of an FBI agent...
Reconstruction in the more than half of the country still under effective UNITA control is directed primarily by three UNITA-sponsored organizations, the National Association of Labor Unions (SINDACO), the League of Angolan Women (LIMA), and the Angolan Youth League. LIMA comprises more than 10,000 women who had initially been trained for combat during the war against the Portuguese minority regime. Still maintaining a military component, LIMA now has chapters throughout the Angolan countryside and concentrates on political mobilization of the populations in those areas, instructing women in effective techniques of village political organizing. Its Kwacha Institute in Sambo...
...There have been no severe food shortages in these areas in recent years, even during periods of intensified struggle. Food coops are structured so that the families of workers obtain weekly allotments of food, paying a fixed amount calculated on the basis of their wages and family size. The Youth League has taken the initiative in setting up elementary schools throughout the country and drawing the parents into the process with their political mobilization work...
...most of the 70 poisonings Hartman treats every year involve teenagers. In part, this is because of their fondness for "natural" foods, like the "tea" brewed out of Jimson weed, a dangerous desert plant. Sometimes plants do damage without being consumed. A few years ago, for example, a California youth died from poisons in an oleander branch that he had used to skewer hot dogs over a campfire...