Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...education as such," said a Mozambican instructor. Girls are free to talk with women teachers about the problems of puberty. "They have biology classes," said a Namibian ideologue, "but as elsewhere in the world, the kids do not apply biology to themselves." He may be right. Since the program is so full and disciplined, there would appear to be little time for love among the grapefruit trees...
Most of the students on the Isle of Youth will eventually return to their homelands, and they fervently express the wish to do so. Castro, in setting up this educational program, at some cost to Cuba, has reinforced his claim to leadership of the Third World. He has taken largely unformed young Africans and Latin Americans from a peasant society and turned them into disciplined young technicians, thoroughly indoctrinated in the tenets of Marxism-Leninism. Inevitably, the graduates of the Isle of Youth will have a profound impact on the spread and consolidation of socialist movements in troubled nations...
...Mike Nichols, director or producer of such successes as Catch 22, Annie and The Odd Couple. This time, however, Mike is east of Hollywood and way off-off-off Broadway at a barn in Scottsdale, Ariz. His Miss America is a white Arab mare listed unromantically on the program as "Lot No. 1 -Fantazja." Other ingénues should be so lucky. After 17 minutes of brisk bidding, Fantazja sells for a record $450,000. By show's end 31 Nichols-bred Arabians have been knocked down for a total of $2,316,000. Horses are a beguiling pastime...
...emergency program" for 1980-85, the Brandt report proposes four steps...
Energy Cooperation. In a most ambitious suggestion, the commission calls for an "accommodation between oil-producing and -consuming countries." Petroleum exporting nations, on their side, would guarantee levels of production and avoid sudden, large price increases. In return, the developed countries would commit themselves to a stiff conservation program and agree to index the price of oil to the real value of a group of strong currencies. The report also urges an all-out program to discover new oil and gas deposits in Third World countries...