Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...party that is supposed to be open and democratic. Decisions which were made and agreements which were made [on affirmative action rules] over the last six months and were made in the open were reversed in a smoke-filled room where all of us [conservative labor and party rank and file] sat by and had nothing...
Practically nothing is yet known about the 36-year-old Mengistu except that he speaks for the council, a band of 120 men who range in rank from private to major. Though the council seems to be divided over exactly how Ethiopia should be ruled, a majority of its members obviously favor sweeping social reform. As Ethiopian nationalists, they also want to put down by force the Eritrean guerrilla movement. Aman refused to authorize the council to execute prisoners as it saw fit, and was reluctant to send troop reinforcements to Eritrea because he felt the problem of secession should...
About 35,000 of the union's members voted against the new settlement President Arnold R. Miller negotiated for them. But, most significantly, more than 40,000 miners didn't vote at all. The vote was the first rank-and-file referendum on a contract in UMW history, fulfilling Miller's 1972 election pledge to open up the hitherto autocratic ratification process...
Major disputes over party rules and procedures may erupt this weekend when more than 1600 rank-and-file Democrats and some 300 Democratic officeholders assemble in Kansas City, Mo., for the party's first mid-term national convention...
...vowed that he would remain hi the army to ensure that the country would never again have to fight from such a position of weakness. He gained international fame as the brilliant and victorious chief of staff during the Six-Day War. He retired from the army with the rank of lieutenant general in 1968, when he was appointed Ambassador...