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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...democratic base, to construct the structure above." What emerged was a political system based on the ancient institution of the village panchayat (council of elders). Each council, with elected as well as appointed representatives, will represent 10,000 people. Working without salaries, council members will be expected to levy local taxes, maintain roads, operate police forces, register births and deaths, and handle some 30 other jobs, from the promotion of sports to the disposal of dead animals. None of the candidates has been permitted to run under party labels; all are forbidden to criticize government policies...
Today Young Life has branches in 250 high-school districts in 23 states, a newspaper, and an annual budget of more than $500,000. Funds are supplied primarily by contributors, including some big businessmen. There are no membership rolls or dues; local chapters are open to all, and usually meet with Young Life leaders-volunteer or paid-in the houses of participants. Meetings never last more than an hour, consist of rousing gospel singing and serious talk about Christ and his teaching...
...Boredom. Nub of the ministers' charge: "Young Life is. in effect, a separate teen-age church, financed and directed by adults who are not answerable to any local group. We believe its outlook is too narrow, and that its emotional effect is eventually damaging to the young people most attracted by its appeal...
...Author Thayer also believes that the style of Russian diplomacy has not fundamentally changed since the 16th century, when a local Cossack leader addressed the Turkish Sultan Mahomet III in a letter whose milder passages read: "We will lick you on land and sea, you hostile son-of-a-bitch . . . You Alexandrian goatherd, you Babylonian cook, you Macedonian wagonmaker, Jerusalem's traitor, Kamchatka cat, Podolian villain, swindler of the world, and evildoer of the underworld...