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...leadership, while Heath could not make up his mind whether to fight or resign. Backed by Joseph, Norman St. John-Stevas, a Tory intellectual, and Airey Neave, who became her campaign manager and one of her closest advisers,?Thatcher stepped boldly into the arena. At a party caucus on Feb. 11, 1975, she defeated the acknowledged favorite, William Whitelaw, 146 to 79, thus becoming the first woman in history to lead a major British political party...
...began at a Mennonite caucus in Canada where the church members decided that they would look for a new promised land, a remote country in which to found a farming colony. Such migrations are nothing new to the Mennonites, who number about 600,000 worldwide. Founded in 1525 in Zurich, Switzerland, and named for Menno Simons, a Roman Catholic priest who became their most famous leader, the group insisted on voluntary adult baptism, which earned it the hostility of both Catholics and established Protestant churches. Devout and pacifist, the Mennonites repeatedly had to flee persecution; some groups from Germany...
...April of 1969 the substance of that voting--in one complicated parliamentary form or another--came down to what the Faculty believed was more significant: the students' seizure of University Hall or the police bust. The conservative caucus was split on the bust ("Some of us believe it was unwise. Some of us believe it was unavoidable though regrettable," one of their resolutions read), but all its members agreed that the overriding issue was the SDS's unwarranted seizure of a University building...
...retrospect, members of the caucus still stand by their judgment in the period. "I still think that the seizure was the decisive issue," Wilson says. "It became the dominant radical tactic of the time...
...Pipes's "enchanted world" dissolved in the heat of the strike and its aftermath, those faculty members who sought such a world did not disappear with it. Some former members of the caucus have retired; others have died. But ten years later, the majority continue to teach, no longer members of a faction, but unchanged in their assessment of the legacy of 1969. Lost scholarship, student-faculty distrust, enmities within the Faculty--the conservatives regard these as the long-term ill effects. The long-term lesson, as May puts it, is the realization that "nearly all issues can be discussed...