Word: membership
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Although post-Franco Spain is eager for closer relations with Western Europe, joining NATO is not an immediate prospect. Membership, in any case, will not affect a Washington-Madrid defense cooperation pact, which runs until 1981. Washington already has a warm relationship with Suarez. There was also admiration for Spain's progress in Britain last week. "The secret of Juan Carlos' success," reflected one Spain watcher, "was his rejection of the old men of the civil war and the middle-aged leaders of the Opus Dei [the secretive Catholic lay organization] in favor of his own generation of Spaniards...
...divisions in the Plains Baptist Church became critical when black Preacher Clennon King challenged its whites-only membership policy late in the presidential campaign. When the deacons panicked and canceled services the Sunday before Election Day, Pastor Bruce Edwards told reporters that the eleven-year-old policy was "immoral and sinful" and that deacons routinely used the term niggers. At President-elect Carter's urging, the church later voted reluctantly to admit blacks. But an Old South faction, which disliked both Edwards' remarks and the fact that he had adopted a Polynesian boy, maneuvered to fire the pastor...
...Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the 105-year-old denomination also known as Jehovah's Witnesses; after a long illness; in Wallkill, N.Y. During his 35 years as president of the society, which believes that Armageddon is near at hand, Knorr helped build up its membership from 113,000 to 1 million, in 80 countries. A vigorous preacher, Knorr charged that organized religion was working the world's destruction by perverting the Bible's teaching...
...Manhattan, Studio 54, once the baroque Fortune Gallo Opera House and later a CBS studio, has been transformed into a dancer's Disneyland (membership $125 a year). The vast (5,000 sq. ft.) shuffle area is a stage, with theatrical lighting, scrims and backdrops rising as high as 85 ft. A dozen pencil-thin poles of red and yellow light blink, twirl, rise and fall amid the dancers; revolving silver prisms above the dance floor reflect flashing strobes. In all, there are 450 different special effects, including snowfalls (plastic) and a giant half-moon with glowing nose and spoon...
...newsmen last week, Ecevit warned that the continuation of a Congress-imposed embargo on military aid to Turkey will have "certain inevitable impacts on [our] contribution to the collective security system." He spoke vaguely of forming a new "national defense concept" that "need not be in conflict with our membership in NATO." Ecevit did not spell it out, but he seemed to be indicating that Turkey could play a lesser military role in NATO and could reduce its dependence on U.S. arms by shopping elsewhere...