Word: membership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...June 29th HUCTW membership ratified its first contract. The ratification was a foregone conclusion days before the first vote had been cast and the voting process itself was a travesty of democratic process...
...this assignment, which threatens his anonymity and possibly his safety. Significant people on the ship would also like to see him remain hidden and humbled. One of his enemies-to-be reminds him of his expulsion from the only group that truly matters in the Soviet Union. Renko replies, "Membership in the Party was too great an honor. I could not bear...
...doors are closing. Everywhere barriers are going up to keep refugees out, largely by challenging whether they are legitimate refugees. The 1951 U.N. Geneva Convention on Refugees defines a refugee as any uprooted person who has "a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion." Western nations claim that much of the deluge crossing their borders consists of people who are fleeing poverty rather than persecution. Thus the issue of accepting the displaced has become intertwined with policy concerns about controlling immigration. "We are not an immigration country...
Instead, it has decided to stay until it either establishes its independence to do what it wants or, more likely, until the Episcopal Church expels its membership. "We must remain within the church to transform it," vows dissident Bishop David Schofield of Fresno, Calif. If separation is forced upon the flock, he states, "we will take the path when it comes." Says Bishop Clarence Pope of Fort Worth, who was elected president of the new Synod: "We are moving one step at a time to test the waters...
...members themselves, the army's brutality has soured them on the party's monopolistic rule. "The only way to save the country is to go to a multiparty system," says John Shao, a student at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg. He renounced his party membership after witnessing scenes of the Tiananmen Square bloodbath...