Word: membership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taken hammer and sickle to the country's bureaucracy. To date, 22 of 121 regional Communist Party first secretaries and dozens of officials in major cities and republic ministries have been fired. At the top, Gorbachev has named four new voting members of the Politburo, bringing its membership to 13, and nine new government ministers. Grigory Romanov, 62, the Leningrad party boss who was widely considered to be Gorbachev's chief rival, was unceremoniously dumped from the Politburo and Secretariat; officially he resigned for reasons of health. Gromyko, 76, was artfully nudged upstairs to the prestigious but largely % ceremonial post...
...come forward to the altar and be born again. He bought a Bible the next day. After graduating from a Missouri Bible college as an ordained Baptist minister, he started the Thomas Road Church in Lynchburg and began to broadcast his services on radio. Within a year his membership jumped from 35 to nearly a thousand. Falwell was a smooth storyteller and his blunt, biting tongue gave his Fundamentalist listeners a new sense of confidence. He thundered against adultery, drinking and premarital sex. He built his church audience with a series of stunts, importing Christian karate experts to smash blocks...
Another distinction involves church affiliations. Evangelicals often coexist amicably with liberals within mainline denominations, such as Methodist and Presbyterian groups, that hold membership in the National Council of Churches. These bodies tolerate a variety of beliefs. All true Fundamentalists, strictly speaking, belong to congregations or denominations that root out any hint of liberalism. As many as 10 million members worship in wholeheartedly Fundamentalist churches.* There are several times as many Evangelicals, both inside and outside the mainline groups. The largest Evangelical body, the 14.4 million-member Southern Baptist Convention, is now facing a powerful takeover campaign by its Fundamentalist wing...
Kahane acknowledged that his decision was also influenced by the fact that he may be about to lose his U.S. citizenship. A new Israeli law bars Knesset membership to anyone holding dual citizenship. Kahane claims the statute was passed in response to his election. In addition, the U.S. is considering withdrawal of his citizenship because he holds office in a foreign government. Should this happen, Kahane believes that his chances of getting a visa to visit the U.S. would be improved if he drops his link with the J.D.L., which has in the past run afoul of American law enforcement...
Botha: I don't know. That revolutionary-backed United Democratic Front has a few big unions behind it. And the workers have been pretty active here since 1980. Only 101 strikes occurred in 1979, then boom. They went up to 207 the next year. And since 1980, membership in Black unions has mushroomed from 220,000 to about 700,000. They even called to two-day general strike last fall. Can you imagine? They might shut down the entire economy. You guys better send some troops down here...