Word: young
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other resolutions urged parents and students to defy school segregation policies, demanded land redistribution and urged young white men to refuse mandatory military service. Delegates also demanded appointment of an independent commission to investigate allegations that police death squads have killed government opponents...
THESE leaders-in-exile are young (Liu Yan is 19), and the shock of what they have gone through has been exacerbated by their sudden departure from their homeland and subsequent adjustment to life in the United States. A great burden has been put on these people's shoulders: in addition to dealing with their own ghosts, they are being asked to speak for those who died. They are not permitted to grow beyond June 4, and yet they are looked to for dynamic, continuing leadership...
Like some 150 other young children in the U.S., 21-month-old Alyssa Smith was waiting for a new liver, her one chance to avoid death at an early age. Her prospects did not look bright, since the supply of livers taken from cadavers and suitable for transplant is critically slim. But last week a team of surgeons at the University of Chicago Medical Center gave the little girl from Schertz, Texas, her chance to live. And what seemed truly miraculous about the operation was the source of Alyssa's new liver: her mother...
...public offering to raise cash for movie and TV projects. The company earned a mere $323,000 in fiscal 1989 and may lose money in 1990. Comedy is hot today, but Brooks may be running out of gas. He has had no major hit since Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein in 1974, which reaped a total of more than $86 million in North America alone...
...children sound the alarm. "Soldiers!" cries a 13-year-old girl, peeking out the window of the dank second-story apartment. As she hides a framed picture of a "martyred" relative, wrapped in the outlawed Palestinian flag, three young men dash out the back door and flee down the narrow alleyway. When the Israeli soldiers hurl a stone through the open window, two middle-aged women cower on the bed, rocking back and forth in terror. "God help us," pleads Umm Hamada, 45, desperately rubbing her hands together...