Word: membership
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Anne Murray Morgan '46, president of the Alumnae Council which visits the University every two years, said the general membership had not been given the opportunity to either sign or review the statement...
...Hellenic Students Association, a joint Harvard-MIT body whose constitution dictates that it must never align itself with a Greek political party. But the association is perhaps the most political student group in Cambridge, judging from its intense concern with the state of Greece. And with a membership of well above 100, it is probably the largest radical student organization...
...recent meeting beginning with a presentation on the Nazi occupation of 1940, the photographic slides might have been sepia with age, the invaders' uniforms perhaps comically anachronistic, and the arms of the resistance maybe pitifully simple and outdated, but a kindred feeling to that resistance gripped the membership. The protest songs of that era had not died; when one was played on a phonograph, the deep echo from the audience surged like a mournful wave, and if thanatos was the only word an English-speaking reporter could make out, it still means death in Greece today...
...Fatah, the largest, has an estimated membership of 6,700, of whom some 2,000 are active fighters. Al Fatah?an acronym derived from the transposed initials for Palestine Liberation Movement in Arabic?was founded in 1956 by a group of young Palestinians in Gaza. Among the students was Arafat (his code name is Abu Ammar), who has led the organization since 1968. Al Fatah has a broad base of middle-class support and no definable ideology other than the liberation of Palestine. Since its first raid into Israel on New Year's Eve 1965, Fatah has carried out mostly...
...Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, second largest of the commando groups, has an estimated membership of 3,500. It was founded in 1967 by George Habash, a Lydda-born physician who was educated at the American University of Beirut. Habash's group is more flamboyant than Fatah. Marxist-Leninist in outlook, the P.F.L.P. despises the kingships of Hussein and Faisal almost as much as it hates Israelis and Western (meaning U.S.) "imperialism." The P.F.L.P., known to Western diplomats in Beirut as "P-Flippers," has carried out some of the most spectacular terrorist attacks, including the simultaneous skyjacking...