Word: membership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Premier Carlos Arias Navarro and Foreign Minister Pedro Cortina Mauri. Among other things, they discussed the pending negotiations for the U.S.'s continued use of four military bases in Spain. In exchange for renewing the agreement, which expires in September, Spain wants some unspecified recognition-short of NATO membership-of its contribution to Europe's defense...
...Egypt were one big Mit Abu el Kom and he the great 'umda. Sadat has pretty much neutralized the once-mighty Arab Socialist Union, which Nasser established as Egypt's only political party. He uses the A.S.U. only as a sounding board of grass roots opinion; membership is no longer mandatory for representatives sitting in the People's Assembly, Egypt's parliament, and Sadat has allowed small, informal party groupings to develop. Although the assembly debates legislation and occasionally calls government officials to task, it is the President who makes the decisions that count. He carried...
What prompted his observation was a charge by left-wing Industry Minister Anthony Wedgwood Benn that membership in the Common Market had already cost Britain 500,000 jobs, about half the current unemployment. This fanciful statistic (simplistically based on Britain's trade deficit) was only one of the wild "facts" that flew to and fro as Britain prepared to vote this week on whether to remain in the Common Market. Pro-European zealots hinted ominously that a no vote would benefit the Communists. Anti-Europeans countered by charging that the American CIA, which helped to finance some European-unity...
...pound level, the pro and con arguments seem to consist, as Tory Shadow Foreign Secretary Reginald Maudling put it, "of diametrically opposed conclusions drawn from the same inadequate facts." Pro-Marketeers, rather indifferently led by Prime Minister Harold Wilson, himself a convert to that position, argue that continued membership will lead to more jobs and lower food prices for Britons. Anti-Marketeers on both far right and far left say that it will lead to fewer jobs and higher food prices. And an exhaustive study by the National Institute for Economic and Social Research shows that, 2½ years after...
...proposed the unprecedented referendum (Parliament had,.after all, legally and officially approved the treaty to join Europe), the anti-Marketeers enjoyed a 58%-to-28% majority, with an important 14% undecided. Since last March, however, pollsters have reported an amazingly consistent 2 to 1 majority in favor of continued membership. The latest Gallup poll showed 61% intending to vote yes, 29% no and only 10% undecided. Most political analysts see the turnabout as a sign that many formerly skeptical Britons are now prepared to believe that "Harold knows best." The pro-Europe forces also profited from world market fluctuations that...