Word: membership
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...RECENT DECISION by the United Nations Economic, Social, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to change the voting procedure on membership in order to enable Israel to be readmitted to the European regional group is both welcome and long overdue. The 1974 vote to exclude Israel from that group, and thereby from participation of any kind in UNESCO, was based on dishonest premises and represented nothing less than another attempt to delegitimize Israel by forces opposed to the very existence of the state. Their contention at the time that Israeli archeological excavations in East Jerusalem were being carried out without regard...
...Park, are not only generous with their money, but with entertainment. Many a congressman and senator has enjoyed evenings of fun and frolic at Park's famous Washington events. The Georgetown Club, a private social organization including officials like Tip O'Neill and Gerald Ford in its non-paying membership, is owned by Mr. Park...
...Sunday, while hundreds of reporters and tourists huddled in the cold ram outside, the church membership wrestled with the issue behind closed doors. After two hours and 45 minutes, Carter came out smiling. The church had voted, 120-66, to end discrimination; a committee would be set up to judge the "sincerity" of anyone wishing to join. Carter, who said he was proud of his church, played down his own role. Said he: "I was just one of the members." Clennon King exulted that the decision "vindicates the people of Plains." He added that he would be back next Sunday...
Besides division within the organization, Hooks will face two other problems. Partly as a result of unfavorable court judgments in the South, the N.A.A.C.P. came close to bankruptcy this year. One of Hooks' first jobs will be to search for donors and to raise the N.A.A.C.P.'s membership, now less than half a million, to 2 million...
...ideals and respectful of human rights. A later political association between Turkey and America began with the Truman Doctrine in 1947, an imaginative and bold decision to lend support to Turkey and Greece during the bleak and uncertain period of the early postwar period. Turkey's membership in the NATO alliance in the ensuing years created a stronger link between the two countries...