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...delegates were clearly not willing to endure another 18 months of "ultimately rewarding" belt tightening, as Jenkins proposed. By a margin of 5 to 1, they gave resounding approval to the defiant Cousins' resolution. It was the first time that a party conference had split with the government on a key issue since Wilson assumed the Labor leadership in 1963. The vote was thus a stinging rebuke to Wilson personally, but it will have no immediate effect on the Labor government's economic policies, because wage and price restraints are now the law. The vote will make more...
...university." Acting President Cordier, however, seems sympathetic to some student complaints. He has told both administrators and professors that they must find the time to meet with students, even if it means curtailing "research work and off-campus commitments." But he also issued a sharp warning to the still defiant radicals: "There is no place for willful disruption at a university...
...luxury of hope. Out of the once-crushed idealist's instinct for self-protection, he cannot allow himself any hope at all-in the text. But what a tidal wave of yearning surges under that title! For Armah, at heart, is still a dreamer who shakes his defiant fist at the world because he has not yet found it worthy of the dreams he weaves about...
...salaried work is almost nonexistent. Biafra's chance of survival shrinks with each day; yet its resolution seems unwavering. Ojukwu himself has guessed that his fate, if he should ever surrender to the federals on behalf of Biafra, would be hanging?at the hands of his own defiant people...
Elders & Bearskins. Originally separate regiments, the Argylls and Sutherland Highlanders were both formed in the late 1700s, when the Crown was anxious to quell the defiant mood of Scotland that had resulted in the Jacobite rebellion. Their language and manner, from the beginning, made them a strange breed among Britain's tough foot soldiers. On their first foreign tour, at the Cape of Good Hope, the Sutherland regiment showed up with three elders of the kirk in their ranks, piously sent part of their pay home to the missionary society...