Word: membership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...joining the Fly is no easy task either, since its non-alumni membership runs to about 60 undergraduates and five grad school students. If those odds don't frighten you the club's initiation fee (over $100) and monthly dues (over $25) might scare...
Another political ritual concerned the Arab-Israeli conflict. Syria, joined by the Palestine Liberation Organization, which was also given membership during the Lima conference, pressed for a resolution that Israel be expelled from the U.N. The measure was supported by most of the Arabs. "The condition for Arab aid is support for their fight against Israel," explained a Latin American diplomat. But Egypt, concerned about jeopardizing Kissinger's efforts to reach a new interim peace agreement, opposed the Syrian proposal. So did several Black African countries and others like Singapore, Argentina and Indonesia. In the end, the conference adopted...
Several parents' organizations have been formed to protest busing. Says Shirley Warren, a leader of the group called Save Our Community Schools (membership: 5,000): "Parents attending our meetings are at loose ends. They don't know which way to turn. Things just aren't as calm as the newspapers say they are." Sue Conners, president of Concerned Parents (membership: 16,000), is more vehement. She insists that the antibusing parents are "never" going to give in. "We have a war going," she says. "I think Boston will be small compared to Louisville...
...group formed to fight it. There are now more than 800 gay groups in the U.S., most of them pressing for state or local reforms. The Advocate, a largely political biweekly tabloid for gays, has a nationwide circulation of 60,000, and the National Gay Task Force has a membership...
...awkward compromise by a confused and defensive profession. But gay activists treated it as a clear victory. "The substitute category," they announced, "has been created to prevent a few psychiatrists who make careers of changing homosexuals from being drummed out of their profession." The following spring the A.P.A. membership voted 5,854 to 3,810 to endorse the change at least partly in response to the gay argument that the "sick" label gave support to those denying jobs and housing...