Word: membership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...membership were to choose-or be asked-to find a new home, one place it asssuredly would not go is the Soviet Union. Despite the Soviets' complaints about the way the U.S. fulfills its responsibilities as host country, they are not about to accept an influx of affluent and inquisitive foreigners who could "contaminate" the natives. Besides, says one top British official, "administratively, it would be a nightmare, and security-wise, worse still...
...Cambridge resident who is registered to vote and pays a $5 membership fee is eligible to join...
...newly assertive reincarnation, Soares has taken on even the European Community, which has dithered for seven years over Portugal's application for membership. "The moment has arrived for us to force the E.G. to make a decision," he says. "We are tired of waiting on the doorstep." Soares warns that if Portugal is not let in soon, it "will find other alternatives." The country is already dependent on the U.S. for a large portion of its foodstuffs, including 90% of its wheat. President António Ramalho Eanes was in Washington last week for talks with President Reagan...
...forces on the March, he went on to fight the war against the Japanese in the mountain province of Shanxi. In the "Liberation War" he rose to become political commissar of the revolutionary Second Field Army; he wound up both wars with a record of glory and rose to membership in the Standing Committee by 1956. With the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, he was officially named the "No. 2 capitalist reader" in the party, after Liu Shaoqi. Accused of arrogance, gluttony and dissolute habits (addiction to bridge and mah-jongg), he was purged and paraded through the streets...
DIED. Balthazar Johannes Vorster, 67, former Prime Minister and President of South Africa, known as a stern enforcer of apartheid; of a pulmonary embolism; in Tygerberg. Interned during World War II for membership in a pro-Nazi movement, Vorster was named Justice Minister in 1961 and imposed such policies as "banning," a form of house arrest, and detention of dissidents without trial. Elected Prime Minister after the 1966 assassination of Hendrik Verwoerd, Vorster held sway for 13 tumultuous years, his racist government increasingly opposed by riots at home and pressure from abroad. He resigned as Prime Minister...