Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...there and see these houses all boarded up. I see some gutted. I see vacant lots and weeds," says Congressman Louis Stokes of Cleveland. "I see these guys standing around doing nothing. I feel so helpless, so hopeless. We're passing from one generation to another a group of people who are hopelessly locked into a permanent underclass...
...young blacks were looking up; they were coming out of the shadow of segregation; they were saying, 'I am somebody,' " recalls the Rev. Thomas Kilgore, who heads a predominantly black group of 218 activist clergymen in Los Angeles. "Now they don't feel that way. The black community does not have the kind of hope it had then...
...volunteer force, TIME held a seminar that brought together five of the nation's experts on the subject: Morris Janowitz, 60, Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and one of the nation's few academics to study the military as a distinct group within society; Melvin Laird, 57, who as Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973 led the fight for the all-volunteer force, and is now the Washington-based senior counsellor on national and international affairs for the Reader's Digest; Senator Sam Nunn, 41, the Georgia Democrat who is chairman...
...Swedish Social Democratic Party Leader Olof Palme and Spanish Socialist Workers Party Leader Felipe González, who flew to Iran to talk with Banisadr and other government officials on an ostensible "fact-finding" mission. Later, on his way home, Kreisky said that in regard to the hostages the group had made its "deep criticism clear...
...they play politics in Georgia." From the outset Joe Kraft has been unimpressed with Carter, regarding him as an "unstructured mind" incapable of consistent policymaking. In Kraft's view, Carter lacks a political base, which he makes up for by assembling 7% of this group, 14% of another-a "remainder candidate," driven to cutting back and forth to make his majority. But, sighs Kraft, "he'll probably win again." Rowland Evans, of the columning team of Evans and Novak, says, "We're not for anybody, but you don't have to be highly perceptive to know...