Word: membered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Palace in Managua. The best-known Tercerista is Eden Pastora, the Comandante Cero (Zero) who led that raid. More influential are the Ortega brothers, Humberto and Daniel, who represent the Terceristas on the nine-man Sandinista National Directorate. Daniel was named by Sandinistas as their representative on the five-member "temporary government" selected last week by the rebels. The others: Moises Hassan Morales, leader of the Sandinistas' political arm, the National Patriotic Front; Alfonso Robelo Callejas, a businessman jailed by Somoza for leading a strike; Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, widow of the slain editor of the opposition newspaper...
...provinces. Under the circumstances, the margin of victory was surprisingly high: only two days earlier, the government of Premier Bülent Ecevit narrowly survived a censure vote by boycotting a session of the lower house, thereby preventing a quorum. With just 209 seats in the 450-member lower house, Ecevit's Republican People's Party depends on the uncertain support of independents to maintain a slim majority. Meanwhile, Ecevit is under constant attack by burly, gladhanding former Premier Süleyman Demirel, whose Justice Party has 177 parliamentary seats but can muster enough support from independents...
During his 20 years in the House of Commons he had revived Britain's once great Liberal Party as a potent force in British politics. As a product of Eton and Oxford, and the husband of the former Countess of Harewood, he was an important member of that peculiarly British Institution, The Establishment, an exclusive "old boy" network that is still one of the keys to power and influence in Great Britain...
...advanced 8% during the latest twelve-month period, vs. 1% for the U.S. But the gains have not been without cost, notably a rise in prices. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which monitors trends in the leading non-Communist industrial states, inflation among its 24 member states rose 1.1% in April, the steepest monthly jump in two years...
...president of the nation's biggest Protestant group, the 13.2 million-member Southern Baptist Convention, Texas Pastor Jimmy Allen promoted a gargantuan vision of reaching the entire globe for Christ by A.D. 2000. So overwhelming is that task, said he, that "we don't have time nor need to debate the authority and accuracy of the Bible." But at this month's Houston convention, where tempers were as hot as the fiery furnace, the Baptists elected as Allen's successor a man who could not disagree more...