Word: membership
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...Chattanooga, it was The Warriors, a movie glorifying the camaraderie and violence of gangs in New York City, that served as the model and namesake for the first local gang. Fourteen others followed, including the Black Angels, a group with all-female membership. The result has been an overload of car-theft cases in juvenile court, as well as Vincent Bailey's murder last October...
Today, however, the European Communist Parties are almost all in retreat after suffering disastrous setbacks at the polls. Even the Italian Communist Party, still the world's largest nonruling Communist Party, has watched its membership slide from a high of 2 million in the mid-1970s to 1.65 million. . More telling, Bologna is the only large city that still has a Communist mayor. In 1976 there were five, including Rome and Naples. The chances of a party resurgence seem slim under the current leadership of Alessandro Natta, who is bland and unforceful...
...RECEIVED a letter from the White House yesterday. Apparently the FBI had been secretly investigating my use of foul language, and the President, after seeing the Bureau's report, concluded he had to take some action. So he terminated my membership in the family of Western nations...
That probably means I also lost my Club West membership. No more squash, tennis or swimming. I also lose a claim to all the tradition that makes the West western. Locke, Jefferson, Aristotle--I'll never again be able to say we share the same ideology...
...large part on the labor of 6 million black workers. Many of them have become organized just in recent years, and their unions are now the closest thing to black political parties that exists in South Africa. In all, black and black-dominated unions have nearly doubled their membership since 1980, today claiming roughly 900,000 members. This compares with only about 350,000 in all-white unions...