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...Labor Party. Journalist Wadsworth, for example, is chairman of the four-year-old Black Sections National Committee, which demands that nonwhites be named to all of Labor's decision-making groups. Party Leader Neil Kinnock, eager to soften Labor's radical image, is in no mood to bow to such demands. Nonetheless, Black Sections leaders have turned up the heat. At their fourth annual conference last March in Nottingham -- from which white journalists were banned -- delegates called for the repeal of Britain's immigration controls. They also drafted a statement describing the police as a "force of intimidation" in local...
When Senator Paul Simon of Illinois declared his candidacy for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination last week, he became, at 58, the oldest of his party's seven contenders. As the author of eleven books, he is probably one of the most literate candidates. And as a fancier of bow ties, horn-rimmed glasses and what he calls the Democratic tradition of caring and daring and dreaming, he may be among the most unfashionable...
...Simon plans to stay that way. "Harry Truman wore a bow tie and horn- rimmed glasses," he told followers at Southern Illinois University, "and he didn't knuckle under to pressure to change his views as he fought for working and retired Americans." In one recent poll, Simon, first choice of 6% of Democrats, ranked third among the contenders...
Aboard the Stark, radar operators picked up the jet when it was about 200 miles to the north and tracked its southward course until it was virtually due west, well off the frigate's port bow. At that point, no one on the American ship had particular reason for alarm. As Brindel said later, Iraqi warplanes "commonly come down the gulf and pass within close distances." None of them had ever attacked a U.S. vessel. Even the Iranians, whom the Americans considered a greater threat, often flew their jets within missile range of U.S. warships but would back off after...
...genre. It's "All Cried Out" done as a church spiritual, with the lovelorn sentiment of last year replaced by a new moral self-confidence and self-righteousness. You can imagine the chorus swaying back and forth during this duet with Full Force's Paul Anthony and Bow-Legged...