Word: membership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everyone agrees. Indeed, the whole issue of the disputed settlements worries many Jews. One small (membership: fewer than 2,000) Jewish organization called Breira (Hebrew for alternative), based in New York, feels that Israel must give up a great deal if peace is to come. "Israel cannot have both peace and territory," says Breira Executive Director Dan Gillon, arguing that the West Bank is not necessary to the security of Israel. There are others, too, who would be willing to abandon Jewish settlements in the Sinai. Israel, says Rabbi Stephen Pinsky of Tenafly, N.J., "should be able to give...
...much debated vote by its membership four years ago, the American Psychiatric Association decided that homosexuality should not be defined as a disorder. For many psychiatrists, that poll has hardly disposed of the issue-as a new survey by Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality shows. The journal sent questionnaires to 10,000 members of the A.P.A., and compiled the first 2,500 responses. Of those answering, 69% said they believed "homosexuality is usually a pathological adaptation, as opposed to a normal variation," 18% disagreed and 13% were uncertain. Similarly, sizable majorities said that homosexuals are generally less happy than heterosexuals...
...negotiate its own membership in Canada." Rudolph, however, is in the minority; the overwhelming majority of Western Canadians want their country to remain united...
...Another problem is resources. Last week A.C.L.U. lawyers won another decision in the Illinois Supreme Court on behalf of American Nazi Party members who want to parade in the predominantly Jewish Chicago suburb of Skokie. The A.C.L.U.'s successful defense has contributed to a 15% decline in both its membership and donations nationwide...
Many recall their days of party membership as the most exciting periods of their lives. "The world was all around you all the time, " says a psychologist in her mid-50s. "Every time I wrote a leaflet or marched on a picket line or went to a meeting I was remaking the world." Some had less ambitious goals. Says a California woman: "Of all the emotions I've known in life, nothing compares with the emotion of total comradeship I knew among the fruit pickers in the Thirties, nothing else has ever made me feel as alive, as coherent...