Word: memberships
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Politburo membership and the policymaking power that goes with it have always exceeded Thuy's grasp. He stands at the front of the second rank. "Thuy is a thoroughgoing professional," concedes a U.S. diplomat. "He knows what he's doing, even if he is only doing what he has been told." As Foreign Minister from 1963 until his removal two years later for undisclosed-and hitherto unnoticed-"health reasons," Thuy mouthed Hanoi's message, glad-handed visitors, and facelessly executed orders from above. He was replaced by Nguyen Duy Trinh, a pro-Peking hardliner. Although favoring Moscow...
Other bargaining units from coast to coast quickly came to the same terms. After that, calling off the strike, which had been aimed at telephone service in 47 states, needed only membership ratification for picket lines to dissolve and for installers, repairmen, operators and clerks to return to jobs that have been held down in their absence by supervisory personnel. Beirne predicted that ratification would come quickly...
...major issues were at stake in the constitution fight: student legislative power and student representation on the Council. The new constitution grants RUS requests on one point--independent legislation--but does not accept RUS' demand for permanent student membership on the Council...
...agreed on the things we could agree on," Miss Batts said last night. "We couldn't agree on permanent Council membership. So we decided to accept a temporary, informal clause. We will keep working for permanent representation. Meanwhile, we can go to the Council meetings as invited delegates and try to convince them to accept our requests...
Erasing the Vestiges. The United Methodist Church inherits by necessity the problems of the Methodist Church, most significantly its racially segregated organization.* White-run Methodist churches in the South have been al lowed by their denomination to bar Negroes from membership; as a result, Southern communities often have separate white and Negro Methodist congregations. The new denomination eliminates the Central Jurisdiction, a euphemism for a segregated administrative arm that has overseen most Negro Methodist churches. But it still retains ten all-Negro Methodist conferences in the South as separately administered units. The planners of the new church body have...