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Following a monthlong campaign whirl that ended with the thumping re-election of Margaret Thatcher, Britons could be forgiven last week for dearly wishing a respite from political news. It was not to be. Not only did the Prime Minister continue to tidy up her Cabinet, but a pair of opposition leaders, Laborite Michael Foot, 69, and the Social Democrat Roy Jenkins, 62, decided to call it quits. As members of the Liberal Party began grumbling about their alliance with the Social Democratic Party (S.D.P.), their popular chief, David Steel, hinted he might also bow out before the next election...
...mind. Glenn is for nuclear power and says so in the face of the fiercest opposition. He publicly calls for the Israelis to stop building more settlements on the West Bank. He has defied organized labor by voting against its cherished picketing legislation, and union leaders have never really forgiven him. Glenn has uncommon political courage. Interest groups, no matter how sophisticated and strident, have learned that turning up the pressure only makes Glenn hang tougher. He cannot be intimidated...
...there then to support my friends the writers, the students and statesmen of the Prague Spring. I heard them give thanks, at least, for their few months of freedom as night fell once more upon them; the night of Kafka, where nothing is remembered but nothing is forgiven...
...might have installed Mondale in some kind of political Hall of Fame. Who else had ever pulled the trigger on himself so winningly? The statement set off other reactions too. People who scorned that kind of political immolation thought Mondale had shown an impotence that could never be forgiven. Eugene McCarthy, Mondale's former colleague and a man who has also been accused of being a quitter, later expressed his own savage view: Mondale had the soul of a Vice President...
Through Liang's eyes, Mao appears as a cult figure, as widely known as a Pope and with equal mystical power. Liang recalls feeling guilt for nursery school wrondoing until told, "Chairman Mao has forgiven you." Later he goes on a pilgrimage to the civil war mountain stronghold of Mao, and on another to Peking, where he glimpses the party leader, Far from presenting a cool, outsider's perspective, or reactionary scorn, Liang's descriptions of these journeys are filled with personal pleasure and excitement...