Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American exodus climaxes a month-long anti-U.S. campaign led by Laotian students and youth, tacitly backed by the government's police and almost certainly organized by the Communist-led Pathet Lao. U.S. involvement in Laos had dwindled to a shadow of what it was in the early 1970s, when several thousand American diplomats, military advisers, economic and agricultural experts and intelligence agents literally ran the country and directed the fight by the rightists against the Communists. Still, as last week began, the U.S. community numbered a sizable 1,000 or so. Of these, 340 were government employees...
...contrast, the school is spending nearly $160,000 for security, money that otherwise would go for education. The exit doors bristle with electronic locks. Eight plainclothes officers with two-way radios patrol the halls, while off-duty city police monitor the 55-acre campus. Next fall four special-police youth officers will be assigned to E.T.H.S. full time. Says Senior Michael Crooks: "I feel like I'm in a prison...
...been taught by priests and served them at Mass and I knew for sure we would have one maybe even two, comfortable rooms Bill was smarter than I thought. The priest just kept saying, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." He gave us a tip about a youth hostel outside of Reno and we walked about two miles to get there. But it was locked and it looked unapproachable in the middle of flat land, a big Victorian house...
...regime was trying to find work for 1 million unemployed Vietnamese, 3 million civil servants, who were described as "parasites," and 100,000 street urchins and prostitutes. It also announced that armed security units had been set up in each village and district. In Saigon, some 1,700 youths at tended four-day courses on their "new duties" at the Youth Voluntary Training Center to prepare for what Giai Phong is calling the "Ho Chi Minh...
While the film's intention is basically problematic, its execution hopelessly confuses the issue of individual responsibility for the deportation. The hero is, in fact, a thoroughly self-indulgent overprivileged youth, whose motivations fluctuate between a need to shore up his self-esteem by playing at heroism and a desire to seduce helpless Jewesses to whom he appears as a savior. Once Paul has induced Jeanne to accompany him, he promptly makes a pass at her. What more auspicious moment for commencing a beautiful relationship than immediately after Jeanne has seen her family loaded onto a deportation bus, her apartment...