Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vacationing in the northern industrial city of Rostock last month, Egon Krenz decided to attend a soccer match. The outing may have been business as much as pleasure: as the Politburo member who handled youth affairs, Krenz also oversaw the country's sports programs. Soon after Krenz settled into his seat, an announcement blared over the public address system that the politician was in the stadium. Cheers and applause? Hardly. The fans booed lustily...
...True, Gorbachev was no Gorbachev when he ascended to power almost five years ago. But while Gorbachev was aligned early on with reformist factions within the Communist Party, Krenz is indelibly marked as Honecker's creation. The son of a tailor, Krenz joined the Young Pioneers in his early youth and became a full-fledged Communist Party member by 18. He spent three years at the party academy in Moscow, then returned home to rise quickly through the party ranks. He has been a member of the party's Central Committee since 1973. A decade later, he joined the Politburo...
...youth eights women's race, Radcliffe placed first with a time...
Perez's odyssey has been much more dramatic. Not only is he changing his habits of thinking and governing, but he is trying to change the way his country develops. Like Mitterrand, Perez has been a socialist since his youth. He is still vice president, under Willy Brandt, of the Socialist International. During an earlier presidential term in the '70s, he nationalized Venezuela's oil industry, slapped controls on prices and interest rates, mandated wage boosts, increased regulation of agriculture and made government-subsidized loans to low-income city dwellers, peasants and small businessmen. Perez personified the socialist conviction that...
...Club Singles 9:00 a.m. Club Fours 9:30 a.m. Club Eights 9:55 a.m. Veteran's Singles 10:30 a.m. Youth Fours 10:55 a.m. Grand Master Singles (40 and over) 11:30 a.m. Youth Eights 12 noon Senior Master Singles 12:30 p.m. Lightweight Fours 1:00 p.m. Master Singles 1:30 p.m. Lightweight Eights 1:55 p.m. Lightweight Singles 2:25 p.m. Championship Doubles 2:55 p.m. Championship Double 2:55 p.m. Championship Fours 3:25 p.m. Championship Singles 4:00 p.m. Championship Eights...