Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brigade terrorists seemed unable to accept its failure. A number of the 16 suspects wanted by Bonn for Schleyer's murder fit Ferracuti's profile. Christian Klar, for example, studied history and political science at the University of Heidelberg and once belonged to the Young Democrats, the youth branch of West Germany's relatively conservative Free Democrats. His father was archetypically middle class?a high-ranking school administrator and riding club president. It was at Heidelberg that young Klar's "overdrawn sense of social justice and idealism" (as his father describes it) apparently drew him into the maelstrom of ultra...
...Germany has become such a fertile breeding ground for urban terrorists. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, speaking of terrorism generally to a group of European industrialists and TIME editors, correspondents and executives last week, suggested as a cause the loss of a sense of relevance by today's youth, combined with a loss of authority by democratic governments since the early postwar years. Many West German observers believe that the 1968 generation of student protesters developed an idealistic hatred of their country's sleek materialism during the "economic miracle." For many, this was a first step toward radicalism. Beyond...
...Montoneros. Once a neo-Peronist youth group-the name means bushfighters-the Marxist Montoneros of Argentina were responsible for many of the random murders and kidnapings during the regime of Isabelita Perón. The military junta has mounted a countrywide war against these archetypal Latin American guerrillas, whose goal is to take over the government. At least 9,000 Montoneros have been killed or detained by police. But an estimated 12,000 remain at large, and their leaders-Mario Firmenich, Fernando Vaca Narvaja, Horacio Mendizabál-have close contacts with the Palestinians. The Montonero slogan: FATHERLAND OR DEATH...
...directors of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Volunteers for Youth Program are working to expand Harvard's "Big Brother" program and will initiate a "Big Sister" program later this week...
...Harvard Youth Program, now in its third year of existence, attempts to provide positive role models for youths who need it and improve the self-image of junior high school students experiencing adolescent difficulties. The Harvard volunteers will also work to curb behavior patterns which can often lead to juvenile delinquency...