Word: membership
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...airline, will again be permitted to land in the U.S., and scientific exchanges between the two countries will be resumed. Moreover, if the Polish government completely carries out the announced amnesty, the U.S. will go one additional step: it will withdraw its opposition to Poland's desire for membership in the International Monetary Fund. Until the Polish government softens its restrictive attitude toward labor unions, however, the U.S. will continue to deny American agricultural commodity credits and refuse most-favored-nation trading status to Poland...
...Polish people, what Polish Americans want and, most of all, by the wishes of the Catholic Church." Pope John Paul II has long made it plain that he would like to see an end to sanctions against his country, among them Washington's veto of Polish membership in the International Monetary Fund, as well as U.S. bans on most-favored-nation trading status and the denial of credits for food and other much needed commodities. Even some Administration officials feel that such sanctions have outlived their usefulness. Said one: "There is the feeling that Poland is doing, at least...
...same interview Jackson had bitter words about the campaign to put a female on the Democratic ticket waged by "White women," a belittling reference to the predominantly White membership of the National Organization for Women (NOW). Until very recently, Jackson claimed, it was not they but he who championed the cause of a him-and-her ticket, and they snatched it without giving him due credit. Complained Jackson: "They went from a woman Vice President as a non-issue-while I pushed it in every primary-to making it a litmus test this summer, and I wasn't even...
REINSTATED. Vyacheslav Molotov, 94, onetime Soviet Premier and Foreign Minister under Joseph Stalin who negotiated the infamous Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact of 1939; to membership in the Communist Party, from which he was dropped in 1962; in Moscow. Molotov was dismissed from the party five years after losing his post-Stalin leadership positions, allegedly for belonging to a group seeking the overthrow of Party Boss Nikita Khrushchev...
...first the Community's inability to reach a compromise with Thatcher was attributed to British ambivalence about being a member to begin with. Thatcher has done little to sell her country on the positive side of Community membership, such as the grants and subsidies Britain has received for highway improvement, job-training programs and aid to depressed areas. The opposition Labor Party, in its 1983 general election manifesto, pledged to pull Britain out of the Community. Many Britons have made it a scape goat for the country's economic ills: a recent Gallup poll showed that only...