HESTON TO HELP DELIVER NRA.Byline: Tim Klass Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Charlton Heston, touted as a Moses to lead the National Rifle Association National Rifle Association (NRA) Governing organization for the sport of shooting with rifles and pistols. It was founded in Britain in 1860. The U.S. organization, formed in 1871, has a membership of some four million. Both the British and the U.S. out of a wilderness of bickering bick·er intr.v. bick·ered, bick·er·ing, bick·ers 1. To engage in a petty, bad-tempered quarrel; squabble. See Synonyms at argue. 2. and strife, was elected first vice president Monday, sparking a clean sweep clean sweep n to make a clean sweep (SPORT) → arrasar, barrer clean sweep n to make a clean sweep (Sport) → rafler tous les prix for the leadership of the powerful gun lobby. In the most important race for the NRA's future, Executive Vice President Wayne R. LaPierre Jr. was re-elected over Donna Bianchi, chairwoman of the NRA NRA (National Rifle Association of America) organization that encourages sharpshooting and use of firearms for hunting. [Am. Pop. Culture: NCE, 1895] See : Hunting board's finance committee, who was drafted at the last minute by LaPierre's critics. The vote was LaPierre 41, Bianchi 31. The executive vice president is the NRA's top administrator and spokesman. The 72-year-old Heston, best known for his starring role in ``The Ten Commandments'' in 1956, ousted incumbent First Vice President Neal Knox, who had orchestrated most of the opposition to LaPierre. It was LaPierre, in turn, who recruited Heston to run - first for a seat on the NRA board and then against Knox. The Heston victory countered the NRA's long and rarely broken tradition of two one-year terms for each of the top three officers, with the second vice president moving up to first vice president and then to president. ``Certainly this is an appropriate time that we not adhere to that tradition,'' said board member Wayne Ross. ``I think the Lord's given us a prophet, and we ought not to turn our backs on what the Lord has given.'' In the third key race of the day, Kayne Robinson, Des Moines, Iowa “Des Moines” redirects here. For other uses, see Des Moines (disambiguation). Des Moines (pronounced /dɪˈmɔɪn/ in English, , assistant police chief, ousted Second Vice President Albert C. Ross, a bankruptcy lawyer from Arlington, Texas, in a 36-35 vote. It was a rematch. Ross defeated Robinson last year with Knox's backing. President Marion P. Hammer Marion P. Hammer was the first female President of the National Rifle Association[1], an American gun-owners' rights organization. She served from 1995 to 1998 and remains on the Board of Directors. References 1. of Tallahassee, Fla., was re-elected president without opposition. The votes came in a daylong meeting of the 76-member board following the annual convention of the 2.7 million-member organization over the weekend. ``We need a unified team, and we heard from our membership Saturday. Our membership has chosen Wayne (LaPierre),'' said board member Roy Innis, president of the Congress of Racial Equality Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), civil-rights organization founded (1942) in Chicago by James Farmer. Dedicated to the use of nonviolent direct action, CORE initially sought to promote better race relations and end racial discrimination in the United States. and the lone African-American member of the group. The 38-34 loss to Heston was a stunning reversal for Knox, 61, a gun-issues writer and former NRA chief lobbyist from Rockville, Md. Three months ago, he seemed on the verge On the Verge (or The Geography of Yearning) is a play written by Eric Overmyer. It makes extensive use of esoteric language and pop culture references from the late nineteenth century to 1955. of replacing LaPierre. During the NRA's weekend national convention here, Heston made a surprise run for an NRA board seat and won with nearly 74 percent of the vote. Election of officers followed months of political intrigue and fiscal pressures within the nation's oldest, largest and most powerful gun-rights group. LaPierre, 47, hired in 1991, declared himself the leader of those favoring a more mainstream position and said Knox would isolate the NRA on the far right. Knox denied being on the radical right fringe. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Actor Charlton Heston was voted first vice president of the National Rifle Association. Associated Press |
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