Word: elected
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...concerns, and the urgent social and economic problems of the African nations and of American Negroes. We would understand that such an organization, to be representative and effective, would have to be predominantly of African and American Negro membership. Further, if your constitution allowed for the possibility of eventual election to membership of students of other races, we would not intervene or be coercive if, in practice, the members elected at present only Africans and American Negroes to membership. The College does not try to tell any student organization whom, in practice, it shall elect to membership. We have been...
Besides splitting the party, the process of selection seemed to verify the Laborite charge that Conservatives really are anachronistic Tory gentlemen. Unlike their Labor opponents, who elect their leaders, the Tories have no formal method of selection: Instead, senior ministers take delicate soundings within the party to arrive at the "proper consensus." It must have rankled Rab Butler that the "consensus" decided on the aristocratic Home while a nation-wide Gallup poll found Butler to be as strong a Prime Ministerial candidate as Labor's Harold Wilson...
GEORGE T. MARTIN President-elect...
...also got busy again. In September the situation began to worry the band of anti-Communist strongmen, known as the "Binza Group,"* who have kept Adoula in power. Fed up with the do-nothing Parliament (which once had to be locked in by U.N. troops in order to elect a government), the Binza boys pressured President Joseph Kasavubu into suspending Parliament, ostensibly because it had failed to draft a new constitution. More and more a front man for the Binza group, the democratic-minded Adoula reluctantly agreed to rule by decree...
...election to a nine-year term that carries a $25,000-a-year tax-free salary, a World Court candidate must receive an absolute majority in both the General Assembly and the Security Council, which vote separately and secretly. Last week four candidates got the required majorities right away, but it took four ballots in the Security Council and three in the General Assembly to decide the contest for the fifth seat, which finally went to Senegal's Isaac Forster, 60, former president of his nation's supreme court and the first World Court member from south...