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...dawn assault at Druid's Ridge in the Welsh mountain range known as the Brecon Beacons was the culmination of an eight-day maneuver that forced cadets to survive the claggy cold without cover and on minimal sleep. The physical exertions are complemented by intensive academic study of military history and strategy. "Where we are fundamentally different from our peer academies at West Point, Saint-Cyr and Dresden is that we are a military academy that has a significant intellectual, academic component. They are military universities that do military training," says Colonel Tim Checketts, Sandhurst's chief of staff...
...bucolic electoral district of Brecon and Radnor (48,000 registered voters), situated on the eastern boundary of Wales, would appear an unlikely place for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government to take a tumble. In the 1983 general election, the Tories carried the district, which comprises mainly small beef and sheep farmers, by almost 9,000 votes. But in a by-election reversal last week, Brecon and Radnor voters handed the government a stunning defeat. Conservative Christopher Butler finished last among the three major candidates with a dismal 27.6% of the vote. Butler's total of 10,631 votes...
British observers saw the Conservative defeat as more than the usual midterm by-election setback. Said Liberal Party Press Spokesman Jim Dumsday: "The sheer size of the Conservative failure is quite out of proportion with what one would expect from just midterm blues." Also, because the Brecon and Radnor vote was only the eighth by-election since the 1983 Conservative landslide, it provided a rare opportunity for voters to express their opinion of the Thatcher government. Liberal Party canvassers found that the overriding issue was Thatcher's aggressive style and personality. "We kept hearing, 'It's that woman...
...district along with 16 members of his shadow cabinet and 150 Labor M.P.s, called his party's "magnificent" second-place finish "another step on the road to becoming the next government." For the time being, at least, that remains wishful thinking on Kinnock's part. Despite the loss in Brecon and Radnor, Thatcher retains a 140-vote majority in Britain's 650-member House of Commons, and does not have to call a general election until June...
...contract signed last week calls for a loading station adjacent to the Government's Du Pont-built smokeless powder plant in Childersburg, Ala. (TIME, Feb. 17). Through a wholly-owned subsidiary (Brecon Loading Co.) set up overnight, Coca-Cola will spend $1,091,000 on equipment, use the rest for operating expenses. As for profits, Chairman of the Board Robert Winship Woodruff (whose experience with gunpowder has hitherto been confined to his notable quick-triggery in the hunting field) explained: "We don't expect to make any money...
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