Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...procedure is unique; we have no intention of removing tenants," Zussman said, adding that the group had not applied for a removal permit since it planned no evictions...
...Labor Party has long lived with its left wing in Parliament; 70 of its 268 M.P.s are members of the so-called Tribune Group, named for a leftist newspaper. The "radiclabs" from the grass roots are a different breed; proudly Marxist and in some cases revolutionary Trotskyists. London's Communist Morning Star boasted after the Blackpool conference that the British Communist Party, a scrawny organization with no more than 18,000 members, played "the crucial role" in "the historic turning point in the struggle for a new type of Labor government...
...message Pérez Esquivel preaches is simple. A devout Roman Catholic, a sculptor and onetime professor of art and art history, he gave up his academic career in 1974 to found and head Argentina's Servicio Pazy Justicia (Peace and Justice Service). The group is dedicated to human rights throughout Latin America and to what Pe>ez Esquivel describes as "both spiritual and moral support, and practical aid for those who suffer." Specifically, that means organizing help for the needy in the continent's sprawling slums and its impoverished countryside. A disciple of Mahatma Gandhi...
...columnist for the weekly Italian newsmagazine L'Espresso. The plot fizzled when Bocca was alerted to two suspicious-looking young men loitering near his house last June, and called police. The men escaped. Other journalists are believed to have been marked for assassination by the March 28 group. But before the killings could be carried out, a suspected member of the group, Marco Barbone, 22, was picked up by police last month for questioning on other terrorist activities. Barbone blurted out a confession, admitting the Tobagi murder to startled police and naming his fellow cell members...
...economy; it is also a sure sign of more trouble to come. Because of years of insufficient construction, the U.S. has developed an acute shortage of moderately priced housing. More and more members of the baby-boom generation are now moving into the prime home-buying age group. Divorce, single-person households and the great migration of people to the Sunbelt and the Northwest have placed further strains on the existing housing supply...