Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Villa across Mexico. The horses were replaced by tanks in 1942, but a certain amount of cavalry elan persists. Thoughts of home and work are replaced by simpler concerns -food, a cigarette, a breakdown ahead. Vocabularies slide easily into the four-letter Anglo-Saxon mode. At dusk, when the group rolls into Fort Drum, the barracks area is like a class reunion as men greet one another after a year apart...
Critics accuse Alexander of ignoring or explaining away data that suggest the AVF is not working. All inductees, for example, must take a battery of tests that group them by mental ability, from the brightest (Category I) to the dullest (Category V). A study this summer showed that a disturbingly high 46% of the 1979 recruits ranked in Category IV. Those in Category V are automatically rejected as unfit. Alexander sided with consultants who concluded that the real problem was the Army's use of a test that was designed to measure aptitudes rather than intelligence. He ordered...
...same time, the party also seemed intent on trying to divide the workers from their intellectual backers. The official press last week stepped up its campaign against "antisocialist elements" and specifically denounced KOR, the dissident group that has been advising the strikers. Explained KOR's leader, Sociologist Jacek Kuron: "They want to rid the [independent labor] movement of activists so that they can take over and do what they did with the official trade unions...
...populated regions like the Baltic coast, where the new unions are already strong, favored a loose advisory body. A closed-door session finally produced a compromise: a national " coordinating committee" whose member unions will retain their own decision-making powers but will adopt uniform statutes and register as a group with the Warsaw district court. To no one's surprise, Lech Walesa was elected chairman...
...tribunal in Seoul pronounced their verdict last week at the end of the month-long trial, it was a grim, foregone conclusion: South Korean Opposition Leader Kim Dae Jung, 54, was found guilty of conspiring to overthrow the government and sentenced to death by hanging. His 23 codefendants, a group of Christian ministers, university professors and students, were given prison terms ranging from two to 20 years...