Word: membered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...travel. By week's end ominous faults of various kinds -cracked plates, loose bolts-had turned up in the pylons of 36 of the inspected aircraft. After repair, one got back into the air, with FAA permission, joining 102 found to have no defects. But Philip Hogue, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board investigating the American crash, said that he thought the planes should have been kept in hangars until the cause of the disaster had been more fully determined. Would he fly on a DC-10 as a passenger? Answered Hogue: "No, I would...
Ironically, Bonanno used a legalistic ploy. He writes: "They [the commissioners] didn't have any official authorization because J.B. was official member of commission. J.B. was head of the committee who elected the commission every five years. The five years was already passed and they were all out as J.B. was the only official to call [for a new election...
...terms with it. The turning point was Brandt's act of atonement in 1970, when he knelt before a memorial in the Warsaw ghetto to victims of Hitler's Holocaust. The Nazi issue arises periodically; the election two weeks ago of Christian Democrat Karl Carstens, a former Nazi Party member, as West Germany's new President provoked protest demonstrations by left-wing groups dressed in mock Nazi uniforms. It was clearly a milestone in national adjustment when the TV series Holocaust was shown throughout the country earlier this year. The series provoked no serious protest, as might have happened...
...University of Hamburg. While still a student, he joined the S.P.D., partly because his schoolteacher father had been a lifelong member. A successful stint as a whiz-kid interior minister in the Hamburg local government at 31 earned him national recognition. In his first try in 1953 he was elected to the Bundestag. In 1969, after two years as S.P.D. Bundestag floor leader, he entered Brandt's national Cabinet as Defense Minister. By the time Brandt began to lose his political authority Schmidt was West Germany's internationally regarded Finance Minister and the Chancellor's increasingly powerful standin. "When occasionally...
...political leaders believe that in time the new Parliament will evolve into a fresh force for European unity. Indeed, opponents of the idea, mainly some French Gaullists, British Laborites and Danish anti-E.C. groups, fear that the assembly might become a threat to the sovereign powers of the member nations...