Word: membership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main question on the agenda was what the French like to call le problème Britannique. Since Harold Wilson's Labor government was elected last February, the British have warned that they would not stay in the Market unless the terms of membership were revised to give them a better break on Community finances. (Britain claims that by 1980 it will pay 24% of the Market's budget, while it will have only 14% of the total EEC G.N.P...
...National Association for Irish Freedom, have been active, in one way or another, on behalf of the Irish Catholic cause. The largest and probably most important American organization that supports the Provisionals is the Irish Northern Aid Committee (Noraid), which has more than 70 chapters and claims a membership of more than 80,000. One of its officials testified before the U.S. Senate three years ago that American contributions do "not necessarily" go for guns but "might allow [Ulster Catholics] to purchase firearms wherever they might get them to defend the community [and] their families...
...each case, there were large mechanical majorities against Western positions from Third World countries. These now number some 100 (out of a total U.N. membership of 138), ranging from tiny Caribbean islands to India with its half-billion population. In U.N. maneuvering, the Third World usually is backed by China and the Soviet bloc...
...lovers have responded to this threat with a new organization of their own called the Gun Owners Action League (GOAL). Clifford Levi, a founder of GOAL, says, "We needed an organization that could reach out to the mass of unorganized gun owners." He says that its membership, now well over 3000, is "growing like crazy...
While Composer Jule Styne thumped the piano in accompaniment, Gypsy Star Angela Lansbury belted out a chorus of Everything's Coming Up Roses and happily observed: "The whole complexion of the joint is changing." For one thing, the Lambs had recently dropped a century-old rule that denied membership to women. Among the first to join: Jacqueline Onassis, who contributed $25,000 to the club's depleted treasury...