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...usual fractious party conclave at a slightly seamy seaside resort that Britons have come to know and sometimes dread. Burnishing its image as the new model of British politics, the Social Democratic Party chartered a special train (promptly dubbed the "Flying Moderate" by some, the "Smoked Salmon Special" by others) for its first conference last week and took its show on the road for a rollicking six-day, three-city, thousand-mile extravaganza. The tour ingeniously gave each of the party's four leaders, Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams, William Rodgers and David Owen, who are all former Labor Cabinet...
Catherine Quinn's desperate boldness sent a wave of hope through hundreds of families who live in dread of the sudden news that their sons have volunteered to starve. When the name of the latest hunger volunteer, Liam McCloskey, 25, was announced last week, his parents protested to the I.R.A. that their son had a chronic ear infection that could cause early death. They dared to express their indignation...
...draft as the only way to bring into the services the educated white middle-class youths that they are not now attracting (the military forces are the only major segment of American society in which blacks have on the average more education than whites). But many senior officers dread the idea. They fear that the draft would rekindle the intense hostility toward the military that plagued the armed forces for years during and after Viet Nam. Nonetheless, a growing number of officers and, most reluctantly, Congressmen believe that a draft may be unavoidable...
About four minutes are being cut from the film. In one deleted sequence, which Bo describes as "really sweet and cute," the star wrestles topless with an orangutan. In the other, her nude body is painted in preparation for sacrifice to the dread...
Students at the Garthar B. Peterson Elementary School in Atlanta used to dread standardized achievement tests. But this spring, when testing time came, their principal staged a pep rally and promised them a trophy and a party if they did well. It worked. When the results came in, the Peterson school had something to cheer about: after years in the doldrums, more than half its students scored above national norms in reading...