Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...OPEC ministers departed from last week's meeting, they left no doubt that they will start raising prices again just as soon as world petroleum demand permits. The group will meet in September and could then return to its old ways. Said Libyan Oil Minister Abdul Salam Zagaar: "The ceiling is going to be $37 until September, and then we will see what the market will...
Student Attitudes Toward Learning. In a current hit song called Another Brick in the Wall, the rock group Pink Floyd brays: "We don't need no education." There is near unanimity among teachers that many students are defiantly uninterested in schoolwork. Says one West Coast teacher: "Tell me kids haven't changed since we were in high school, and I'll tell you you're living in a fantasy world." A New York panel investigated declining test scores and found that homework assignments had been cut nearly in half during the years from...
...launch a special reading program. "We were all weary of failure in trying to teach academic subjects to high school kids who read on a fifth-grade level," he says. "We saw reading as the key by which these kids could gain success." For six years, Harold's group faced constant opposition from the school's principal, who was embarrassed at all the attention to a remedial program for tenth-graders supposed to be taking high school courses. In 1974, during the city's big economic crisis, the program's teachers were let go or transferred...
Responsibility for the bombings was claimed in London by the newly reorganized military wing of the African National Congress (A.N.C.), a radical nationalist group that was banned in 1960. After years of sporadic hit-and-run attacks, A.N.C. guerrillas have stepped up their activity in recent months. Last week's strike demonstrated a new level of proficiency in their determined struggle to free the country's 20 million blacks from the domination of 4 million whites...
...government of Prime Minister P.W. Botha was careful to keep its reaction subdued and controlled. Only after the A.N.C. had claimed responsibility for the acts did the government name two of the group's nonblack expatriate leaders as the raid's presumed masterminds. They were Joe Slovo, a white Communist exile now residing in Mozambique, and Frene Ginwala, a radical woman lawyer believed to be living underground within southern Africa...