Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...broadcasts are not convincing enough, lack a serious overall view." He urged "ideological front workers" to improve their product, especially in the highly simplistic presentation of foreign news. Meanwhile, Pravda editorialized last year against "the fear of discussing the problems facing our society, the tendency to smooth over and avoid unresolved problems, to blur real shortcomings and difficulties...
...clerk. Only about 12% of Soviet males escape military service. Many of these fall below the armed forces' physical and mental standards; others are given hardship waivers to stay home and support infirm parents or wives. Some Western experts believe that it is relatively easy for university students to avoid active military service. Technically, however, every able-bodied male at a university or other advanced institution is supposed to take reserve officer training and become a junior lieutenant at graduation. After serving six months in uniform, they enter the active reserves and undergo frequent retraining. All Soviet males have some...
...external priority is gathering Western military technology secrets in order to avoid costly parallel research and development at home. A secondary but nonetheless vital concern is the collecting of political intelligence and the manipulation and recruitment of foreigners who might influence their governments' policies. Though the CIA, according to U.S. intelligence specialists, is far superior to the KGB in "comint" and "elint" (communications and electronic intelligence), the Soviets excel in "humint" (intelligence gathering through human contact). This was spectacularly demonstrated in Bonn last year, when West German counterintelligence finally caught up with a KGB agent functioning as a madam...
...theory at least, Soviet schools avoid grouping pupils by ability. Says Malkova: "We are in principle against the IQ theory. We consider that every healthy child is capable of effectively mastering the school program." Even so, a few gifted or privileged students are selected for special schools...
Discipline and Violence. Last year 110,000 teachers, 5% of the U.S. total, reported they were attacked by students, an increase of 57% over 1977-78. Teachers believe administrators tend to duck the subject of violence in the schools to avoid adverse publicity. More than half the teachers assaulted feel that afterward authorities did not take adequate action. Today one in eight high school teachers says he "hesitates to confront students out of fear." One in every four reports that he has had personal property stolen at school...