Word: membership
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When the end comes and access roads to Scott Meadows are dynamited, what happens to the members of the Doomsday Club [Aug. 4] who have been delayed en route? If they don't make it inside before the explosion are they refunded their "modest" $12,500 membership...
Last week, however, Moynihan found himself playing the ogre once again. In two separate Security Council votes, on General Assembly membership for North and South Viet Nam, each time there were 13 ayes, one abstention and a lonely nay: Moynihan's. The reason for his vetoes was the Security Council's refusal even to consider the bid for membership of still another country-South Korea...
...left-leaning but nonaligned members of the council as Iraq and Tanzania blocked South Korea's application from even being included on the agenda. U.S. policymakers were outraged, and the upshot was Moynihan's two vetoes. Never before had the U.S. used the veto to block a membership application.* The U.S., said Moynihan, "will have nothing to do with selective universality, a principle which in practice admits only new members acceptable to totalitarian states...
Organizing success and a mass membership bring political power. Some 93% of the candidates endorsed by the Teamsters won in last fall's California state elections. Teamster President Frank E. Fitzsimmons, who succeeded Hoffa when Hoffa gave up union office several months before being released from prison, was close to President Nixon. Indeed, Nixon showed preference for the Teamsters, who supported him for re-election in 1972. Hoffa charged that the condition of his parole barring him from resuming union activity until 1980 was the result of a deal between the White House and the Fitzsimmons leadership...
...reviewing the A.M.A.'s second-class mailing privileges (along with those of other organizations). But the revelations have yet to force any visible changes in the organization's policies. Sammons remains firmly in charge and, despite growing disenchantment among younger physicians and an anticipated decline in membership, the A.M.A.'s opposition to any government interference in the practice of medicine or in the education of physicians remains unaltered. It is this intransigence, rather than Sore Throat's leaks, that may ultimately prove to be the A.M.A.'s undoing...