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...time when the nation could ill afford them. The Warsaw daily Zycie Warszawy attacked the Roman Catholic community on a different front, claiming that it was "morally ambiguous" for the church to call for a general amnesty while giving aid to Solidarity's underground. Even Jaruzelski entered the fray, assailing "certain clergymen who espouse antisocialist activities and attitudes...
...Labor campaign faltered, Thatcher re-entered the fray, fending off Healey's charges that she intended to abolish Britain's 35-year-old government-run medical-care system. Said she: "I have no more intention of dismantling the National Health Service than I have of dismantling Britain's defenses." But as she noted the Alliance's sharp rise in the polls, Thatcher momentarily, and perhaps for the first time in the campaign, seemed flustered. She warned of the possibility of electing a militant Labor government if too many people "thought it safe to give other parties...
...front of the campaign," chortles one adviser. "We'll just say, 'Now there's an idea-we never thought of that!' And we will then ask people, 'Whom do you want as a leader?' " The Iron Lady, for her part, relishes the fray. "Yes, my style is one of vigorous leadership," she proclaims. "Yes, I do believe in trying to persuade people that the things I believe in are the things they ought to follow. I am what I am, and I am too old to change...
...country, TIME picked five women trial lawyers whose reputations put them at the top of their generation. As a group, they are less like the stereotype of their sex than the stereotype of their job: they are fiercely intelligent, tough-minded, intensely competitive, self-assured individualists who relish the fray. The five...
...after the protest that the ordinance would still be enforced, he announced his own surprise: three high-ranking police officers on duty that night were put on suspension, without pay, two of them for being in the vicinity of the opera hall against orders. MASH jumped back into the fray with a declaration that policemen, like all other citizens, are entitled to go to the opera. As for MAD, perhaps it could expand to meet the new crisis, possibly forming new groups called Memphians Against Damsels Doing Ecdysiast Routines (MADDER), Memphians Against Chest Hair at Operas (MACHO) or, to honor...