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...campaign was an ill-tempered four-week ordeal, with Labor's main hatchet man, Shadow Foreign Secretary Denis Healey, variously comparing the Prime Minister to Catherine the Great and Genghis Khan. The electorate looked on in apparent bemusement at a campaign that rarely sent the national pulse racing and was, American-style, fought out largely on television. In another imitation of U.S. campaigning, both major parties relied on photo opportunities, carefully choreographed meetings with voters, and ticket- holders-only rallies of the faithful...
...national debt is a staggering $33 billion. While FitzGerald and his Fine Gael (Family of Irish) party called for belt tightening, Haughey used the gift of gab, refusing to commit himself to cuts and promising vaguely to stimulate growth. Nonetheless, Haughey, the strong front runner throughout the four-week campaign, stressed that coalition governments are weak and entreated voters to give him a strong majority...
Late last year, as he carefully navigated through the Iran uproar, the Vice President showed an uncharacteristic little blip of daring. His four-week silence after the scandal surfaced had drawn considerable sneering. Even Nancy Reagan privately began running him down. She told friends that Bush's lack of public support for her husband was inexcusable, a remarkable reaction considering the Vice President's long compliant service. Bush and his wife have tirelessly courted the Reagans, routinely dispatching approving notes after public appearances by the President or his wife. Reagan himself held no such dark feelings about Bush and told...
...makes no secret of his Marxist leanings. He even solicited financial support from the Soviets during the miners' 51-week strike that collapsed last March. Just before the union's annual conference in Sheffield last week, the Scargill-dominated N.U.M. executive board reaffirmed its Soviet connection by announcing the selection of 20 miners to attend the Higher Trade Union School in Moscow this fall. The 20, the second N.U.M. group to be sent to the Soviet school, will take a four-week course emphasizing the link between socialism and the labor movement...
...only seen the extremes of America, either New York or Los Angeles. I've never been in what I call 'real America' before," said Glenda Jackson, 48, from the heartland. This week the English stage and film star finishes a four-week stint in Scranton, Pa., where she has been trying out one of her most challenging roles-that of university professor. Accompanied by her son Daniel, 15, Jackson has been on a working vacation at the Jesuit-run University of Scranton, teaching a master class in acting for a hand-picked group of twelve students from...