Word: memberships
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...leadership clashed with the younger, hard-line rank and file. President Oliver Tambo, back from three decades of exile, suggested the easing of economic sanctions against South Africa in light of recent reforms, but was voted down. Nelson Mandela, criticized for meeting with government officials without consulting the A.N.C. membership, said his opponents "do not understand the nature of negotiations...
...that the Soviet Union be granted "special association" status in the IMF and the World Bank. Those organizations would help integrate the U.S.S.R. into the world economy by dispatching experts on the banking system, stock markets, currency exchange, transportation and energy. Eventually the Soviets could be eligible for full membership in the international bodies...
What's the point of being neutral if there are no longer two sides? That's what Sweden's Parliament asked itself last week when it voted 287 to 40 to apply for membership in the European Community, departing from a national tradition of sitting on the geopolitical fence. "The collapse of the communist dictatorships in Eastern Europe has changed the military map," says Lotta Forsman, an E.C. expert at the Foreign Ministry, "and consequently the basis for Sweden's neutrality...
Swedes have long fretted that E.C. membership would dilute their country's elaborate welfare apparatus. But with the economy in decline, there seemed little to lose from joining the Community. There appear to be no insurmountable obstacles to the admission of Sweden, given its modern economy and stable government...
Higgins' characters jaw endlessly about politics, the law and sports, showing but never speaking of love, depression, disdain, fear. He says he'll never run out of stories, though he keeps his bar-association membership current, just in case. He loves what he does, and has never collided with writer's block. Advice to young novelists? Nothing simpler: "You're a bricklayer, you lay bricks...