The brigade will collaborate with the Nicaraguan government to bring that country’s literacy campaign to the Black and English-speaking population of Nicaragua. Thirty NYO leaders will participate in the year-long project in 1982.

This was one of the central decisions made by 400 delegates meeting here December 12 and 13. The delegates were elected during the last few months from 178 NYO groups and a membership of 8,000 young people from Grenada and her sister island of Carriacou.

The congress followed a year-and-a-half recruitment campaign, which won 7,000 new members to the NYO.  
 
January 7, 1957
Reaction to bus integration increased this week in the form of violence and legal subterfuge by white-supremacist gangs and city officials in the three centers of the fight, Montgomery, Tallahassee, and Birmingham. Where the integrated bus movement is based on action, however, it appeared assured of success.

In Montgomery, where integrated riding has been an accomplished fact since Dec. 21, night bus service has been suspended as a result of gunfire attacks on the buses. At least four sniping attacks on Montgomery buses have occurred since integration began. City police, under the command of White Citizen’s Council member Clyde Sellers, have made no arrests. Rev. Martin Luther King, president of the Montgomery Association which led the boycott of Jim Crow buses has announced that MIA is now preparing action to secure voting rights for Negroes and to end segregated schools.  
 
January 2, 1932
On February 22, 1932, the Disarmament Conference called by the League of Nations will convene at Geneva. This conference is to give consideration to the limitation of armaments by the various powers. It will devote much talk on the need to “outlaw” war as the means employed by nations to solve their economic and political differences and rivalries….

Armaments and wars are very expensive affairs and no doubt the imperialist powers would like to decrease expenditures, particularly so, if by lopping off some small sums here and there, they can satisfy to some extent the demands of the workers and the petit-bourgeois middle classes for a reduction in armaments and their longing for peace. But in all these years of disarmament confabs, war “outlawry” and pacifist talk, the powers, particularly the United Sates, Great Britain, France and Japan have been increasing their armament expenditures.  
 
 
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