Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...generally accepted by the party and appear in the proposed charter. In some states, party officials used to select convention delegates; now all party members can take part in the process. But one provision of the guidelines turned out to be explosively controversial: a quota system for minority groups, youth and women...
...four Arabs who had seized the plane to obtain the release of Palestinian prisoners and also embarrass the more moderate P.L.O. were detained in a Tunisian jail. P.L.O. agents swooped down elsewhere to grab 26 other dissidents. They were accused of supporting a breakaway group called "the Arab Nationalist Youth Organization for the Liberation of Palestine," which opposes any settlement short of destruction of Israel...
...bounces. He loves American beer. Above all, he credits his eminence in a rarified field not necessarily to years of scholarship, not to a preternatural kinship with the shades of Telemann and Tartini, but to the four years he spent working in a Provencal coal mine as a youth. "Look at these lungs," he cries after breathing deeply. "Feel these back and shoulder muscles. That is what it takes to play the Baroque trumpet...
...discovered Jan Myrdal's two books, Report From a Chinese Village and China: The Revolution Continued, and since the people in the books reminded me of the country people we met, I think I'll just recommend them as strongly as I can and go back to the educated youth. We met a lot more of them, anyway. They were our counterparts, after all, and besides I think maybe we asked to meet university students once too often and our hosts might have decided to arrange it till we were sick of it. In each city we usually had local...
...ideological struggle took place in my mind, should I correct this or not? And now with the help of the students I have made some progress..." And anyway the athlete didn't typify the young people we met. Most of them seemed closer to Mao's basic quotation on youth, cited in the course of our stay by about a dozen different speakers, each of them evidently pleased with himself for having thought of it. "Young people are like the sun at seven or eight o'clock in the morning," it says...