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...rolling, majestic cadences of Rule Britannia sounded in London's packed Conservative Party headquarters, a confident Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, 57, strode to the podium to fire the first official salvo in Britain's surprise 1983 election campaign. Flanked by Cabinet ministers, beneath a bright blue banner proclaiming the new Tory slogan BRITAIN STRONG AND FREE, Thatcher lost no time - and squandered no politesse-in proclaiming her determination to "ensure that Britain remains a steadfast ally in an uncertain world." She unveiled a manifesto that would further toughen Tory policies on trade unionism, denationalization of state-run industries...
...bringing forth the strains and tensions of a society that never has accepted easily the constraints of government or the call for sacrifice in the national interest. Clouds of tear gas rising over the center of Paris, gangs of masked students clashing with riot police in the Latin Quarter, banner-bearing protest marchers, including farmers, doctors, teachers, retailers and small businessmen-all these signs of widespread unrest seemed disturbingly familiar to many Frenchmen. There were nagging fears of a repetition of the popular upheaval in May 1968 that rocked Charles de Gaulle's regime to its foundations...
...stretched were revealed last week in the West German parliament when members of the antinuclear Green Party charged that the U.S. was responsible for the death of a West German doctor who was executed by contras in Nicaragua two weeks ago. Party Leader Petra Kelly raised a banner in front of the speaker's podium reading: SUPPORTING THE U.S.A. MEANS TO BE IMPLICATED IN THE DEATH OF ALBRECHT PFLAUM...
...Harold Washington's boisterous victory rally in Chicago's Donnelley Hall last month, his supporters held aloft a banner that read RIZZO IS NEXT. The allusion was to Philadelphia's hard-nosed former mayor Frank Rizzo, who has fought an uphill battle against his black opponent, W. Wilson Goode, the city's former managing director, for the Democratic Party's mayoral nomination on May 17. Thus far, however, traditionally Democratic Philadelphia has successfully ducked the racial mudslinging that made Chicago's mayoral election one of the bitterest in American history. Both Rizzo and Goode...
Though word of the story had spread for several days, the blood-red banner headline was startling. Proclaimed West Germany's raffish picture magazine Stern: HITLER'S DIARIES DISCOVERED. To trumpet its acquisition of 62 volumes dated from 1932 to 1945, the entire span of Hitler's Third Reich, Stern (circ. 1.87 million) summoned more than 200 print and television reporters from around the world to its art deco headquarters in Hamburg. There, at a self-congratulatory three-hour press conference, Editor in Chief Peter Koch announced: "I am 100% convinced that Hitler wrote every single word...