Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Soviet invasion of Afghanistan [Jan. 14] been enough to awaken the sleeping giant? Get up! The country, or group of countries, that can best organize men and materials to its purposes is the one that gets to set the values. We've got the strength, but where's the will and purpose...
...President did not attempt to spell out the new Selective Service procedures. He did not say whether the registration would involve only 18-to 26-year-olds, as during the Viet Nam era. Everyone in the age group would have to register. Administration officials did say that individuals would be able to sign up by going to a local post office and filling out a "simple form." No draft cards would be issued, no classifications would be made, no physical exams required...
...make out at the House Ethics Committee hearings remains to be seen, but he has already lamented the passing of another age. "The House isn't the high class legislative body it once was," he has groused in the past. "It started with Watergate. We got a big group of new members in '74 from Common Cause. Everybody got so moralistic...
Militant's goals are spelled out in ten documents that a former Labor Party official, Lord Underhill, uncovered nearly three years ago. These plans of action, which Callaghan categorized as "so turgid they were unbelievable," outlined methods for capturing Labor at the grass roots. The program of the group, dubbed "Red Moles" by London's Daily Mirror, also includes fomenting an economic and political crisis in Britain that would result in the apocalyptic collapse of capitalism. One key tactic advocated is "entryism," a neologism coined by Leon Trotsky in 1934 to describe the infiltration of legal political organizations...
...center of the controversy is a semisecret, radical left-wing group called the Militant Tendency. Although it is thought to have only 2,000 members, Militant has acquired disproportionate influence inside the 284,000-member Labor Party by doggedly infiltrating it at the local level. Labor's youth organization, the Young Socialists, is now believed to be controlled almost completely by Militant...