Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...East Africa and the Middle East, Carter dispatched a new team of military experts, as a follow-up for an earlier group, to take a detailed second look at airfields and ports that might be used by U.S. troops during an emergency. Meanwhile, the President's special envoy for the Middle East, Sol Linowitz, prepared to depart for that troubled region this week to meet with the area's leaders...
Sports cannot live outside reality." Last week the Muhammad Ali Amateur Sports Club in Santa Monica, Calif., decided not to wait for the White House and announced its own boycott. The group, consisting of 32 athletes, agreed to the move after listening to an emotional speech by , Ali. At least half a dozen club members -including Sprinter Houston McTear and Hurdler Greg Foster-were considered top Olympic contenders...
Some 18 cautious states, including India, Algeria and Syria, abstained, and an eclectic group of twelve states did not vote at all. Noting that these included Bhutan, Rumania and South Africa, the New York Times caustically dubbed the nonvoters as "The Confused, the Brave and the Outcast." (One of these last was the Sudan, which was $65,000 behind in its U.N. dues and could raise only $40,000 before the count began, thus failing to qualify to vote...
Place volunteers have moved on to work in a variety of human services jobs, and Place training has earned a reputation as an excellent way to learn counselling skills in action. Nine hotline training groups were held in 1978, with two experienced counsellors and about 15 neophytes each. Training groups meet one night a week for eight weeks and then hold an intensive encounter group-style weekend. While in training, volunteers familiarize themselves with the mass of literature assigned on counselling, drugs, Place procedures, and available social services. They also observe people on the hotline, answering a few calls themselves...
...board of community announcements and happenings. In the back is a Place version of Peking's democracy wall, a forum for more overtly political discussion. On the wall are a few brightly-covered anti-nuclear posters, which drew forth in response an article from a local newspaper on a group of women engineers who are pro-nuke and think many of the anti-nuke arguments are just a form of solar energy that is to say, hot air. In counter-response someone has circled a paragraph in the article that says how, despite the fact that these women were hired...