Word: youths
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Born in Poland in 1913, Begin, then a law student at Warsaw University, joined the youth organization of the Zionist-Revisionists, a group of right-wing militants who condemned the regular Zionist leadership as misguided and soft. While fleeing the Nazis in 1940 (his parents and a brother were killed), he escaped to Lithuania but was arrested by the Russians for Zionist activities and briefly imprisoned. After his release, he joined the Polish army and was sent to Palestine where, in 1943, he deserted and joined the Irgun Zvai Leumi...
BIAS IN EDUCATION. The document charges blatant discrimination in the schools, despite guarantees of equal education in the national constitution. Children of outspoken believers are systematically excluded from some types of higher education by a rule requiring applicants to provide recommendations from the Communist Youth League, the petition says...
...answer is that they cannot find jobs, at least jobs they want to stay in and grow in. The problem has swollen to pandemic proportions since Lyricist Lee Adams wrote Kids for the Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie in 1960. Massive youth unemployment-and the threat of social and political unrest that goes with it-now faces the world's industrialized democracies, adding to an already unnerving brew of mounting inflation, trade imbalances and looming energy shortages. So grave has the problem become that seven major world leaders, including President Jimmy Carter, resolved at the London economic summit...
...with little money and even less fun. There is talk of sex, sports and cars, as usual, but the main preoccupation is with the hopeless job market and what governments are doing to stimulate employment. Those attempts range from President Carter's proposed $1.5 billion expansion of current youth employment programs to a French scheme that would, among other things, pay young people $970 in cash to leave the country and look for jobs elsewhere...
Italy is by far the worst off. There, official statistics place youth unemployment at 36.8% of all unemployed. But some Italian experts say the real percentage is probably closer to 65%, and soars to 80% for people under 30. Violence has flared, chiefly among frustrated students who know they will not be able to get jobs when they graduate. Riots this spring in major Italian cities have killed two policemen and two students. In Naples, where young people probably account for fully half the total of 250,000 unemployed, some 30,000 protesters marched through the center of the city...