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...founded, the party has been led by four former Labor Cabinet ministers: Williams, Roy Jenkins, William Rodgers and David Owen. But the party will have to choose one designated leader before the next election, a choice that could cause a problem. Within the Social Democrats' inner circle, one faction wants the selection to be made on a one member-one vote basis, a procedure that would favor Williams, whose support is strong among the grass roots. Others want the choice to be decided by the party's M.P.s, who would probably favor Jenkins...
...protesters have marched in the streets of London. Bonn and the Hague, demonstrating significant anti-nuclear sentiments in those countries. In Belgium and the Netherlands, domestic opposition to the planned deployment of nuclear missiles has forced the governments to delay their decisions on accepting the missiles. A strong faction is growing in Schmidt's Social Democratic party, though the chancellor remains staunchly committed to deployment should negotiations fail. He has been forced to delay deployment until April 1984 at the earliest, and has said that West Germany will accept the missiles only if another continental nation does...
...uncommitted delegates. The Association of Democratic State Chairs recommended at the last meeting that 30 percent of the slots be held open for such delegates. They argue that elected officials will only come if they do not have to declare a preference before the convention and risk alienating one faction or another in their districts...
Cambridge has so far resisted the temptation to convert to straight majority voting because, advocates insist, the PR system consistently ensures minority representation on the city council and school committee and at the same time prevents domination by any one political faction...
...people marched on Bonn protesting nuclear weapons. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt favors the deployment of 108 U.S.-made Pershing II and 96 cruise missiles by 1983 in order to counterbalance Soviet SS-20s targeted at Europe. But he is strongly opposed on this issue by an important faction of his Social Democratic Party. Indeed, growing popular opposition to Schmidt's endorsement of the medium-range missiles threatens to push him into early retirement. Willi Piecyk, chairman of the S.P.D. Young Socialists, warned that Reagan's ideas of nuclear strategy have reached "the level of danger...