Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rucci's assassination, the strike and the apparent retaliatory assassination a day later of a leftist youth-labor leader were poor omens for the future of Argentina. The country is plagued not only by terrorism but by bitter political factionalism and economic decay. Perón was returned to office by voters who clearly hoped against hope that el Lider, at once a kind of Latin Mao and second Mussolini, might magically solve the country's problems. The task would be difficult enough for a man in his prime, but Perón is 77 and ailing...
...young at this time implies a great responsibility; to be young in Mexico or Chile; to be young in Latin America; a continent that, as I have explained, is a young continent in terms of the average age of its inhabitants. Youth must understand its historical responsibility; it must understand that there is no struggle between generations, as I told you a moment ago, that there is a social confrontation, which is very different. Youth can be on the same barricades in this social confrontation with those of us who are older--I am slightly more than 60, please keep...
...responsibility of being young, and if he is a student, must realize that there are other young people the same age who are not students. And if he is a college student, he must consider the young peasant and the young worker. He must speak the language of youth, not only the language of college students, to other college students...
...THAT REASON, it is useful that the youth, especially university students who cannot pass through the university ignoring the problems of its people, understand that one cannot teach doctrine by mouthing doctrine; they must understand that the dense thinking of the theoreticians of the economic and sociological currents requires serious study. It is true that there is no revolutionary action without revolutionary theory and there cannot be a voluntary application or interpretation of the theory arranged to accommodate what the youth or the young man wants. The youth must look at what is happening in his country and beyond...
...home in Lincoln, Donald's hobbies include playing the clarinet (as a youth he aspired to direct a band), gardening and history. He and his wife, Aida DiPace Donald, also a Ph. D. in American History, have shared historical writing and research projects since they met at Columbia. They have a 15-year old son, Bruce Randall...