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...secret of the militant left has been its patient cultivation of party members at the grass roots. Their technique? Simply to outlast and outtalk older party members. Under pressure from families or jobs, the elders are not as inclined as the militants to argue politics into the wee hours. Protests right-wing Dissident Leader Shirley Williams: "When the moderates resist, they are howled down...
...handsomely. The radicals have forced Labor to accept "reselection," a midterm performance review of M.P.s by their constituents. They have not only heavily influenced the party's manifesto, or platform, with their radical policies, but are pressing for more control over enforcement of party policy at the grass roots. When they wrested the privilege of selecting the party's leader and potential Prune Minister from the parliamentary party, many militants predicted their power play would one day be regarded as a kind of coup de grace against the moderates...
...hydroponic pot in a warehouse just outside of San Fransisco two weeks ago. To their dismay, the crop was not only growing faster than normal, but it contained, according to the DEA, "at least twice as much THC tetrahy-drocannibol--pot's active ingredient) as the best Colombran grass...
...clutter on stage. Helga, Tess's heavily Teutonic maid (Grace Keagy), has the best lines in the show and steals every scene she plays. And Jan, dowdy wife of Tess's first husband (Marylin Cooper), shares the best moment in the show with Bacall, a duet called "The Grass is Always Greener," in which the two women enviously examine each other's lives. Add a quality chorus (which is on stage far too little, given the musical talents of the leads), and Woman has many of the acoutrements of success but none of the fundamentals...
...fight, which occurred at a special Labor Party meeting held in London's Wembley Conference Center, was intense and bitter, but in the end it was a rout. By a margin of 54% to 46%, the conference of Members of Parliament, labor unions and grass-roots party organizers voted to strip M.P.s of their traditional right to elect their own leader. That responsibility will go in the future to a new electoral college in which the more militant unions and the radical local party organizers will hold 70% of the power against only 30% for the M.P.s. Party Leader...