Word: membered
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...also bail him out of trouble. Last March, William Bennett, the new director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, temporarily banned imported assault weapons. Bush, a life member of the National Rifle Association, kept his distance in public. Opinion polls backed Bennett's move, but gun owners did not. N.R.A. lobbyists complained bitterly and even withheld a pivotal endorsement of Dan Heath, a Republican congressional candidate from Indiana, just a week before the March 28 special election. Heath lost the race by 1,778 votes...
...draft, approved by the ruling party Politburo, is expected to be discussed in the party central committees of the republics prior to the meeting of the 250-member national Central Committee next month in Moscow...
Strauss concedes that minorities are underrepresented on the city council, which has eight members chosen from single-member districts and two others (plus the mayor) elected from the city at large. She and the council have proposed a system of ten single districts, with four other members to be picked from large areas of the city...
...Charges black Councilman Al Lipscomb: "It's a scheme to preserve Anglo business and political power." He and others contend that Strauss, who was twice elected with heavy black and Hispanic support, sold out to the Anglo establishment and then conspired to keep a minority proposal for all single-member districts off the ballot...
...pretty good chance the courts will do it for us." In fact, a federal trial set for September seems to guarantee a prolonged period of discord. Two unsuccessful black office seekers are demanding exactly what minority activists could not get on the ballot: a system of all single-member districts...