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...post, but union leaders have judged him too old. Tony Benn, longtime Laborite leftist and prime architect of the party's disastrous manifesto, planned to make a run, but his unexpected loss last week knocked him out of the race. Among the remaining moderates, the leading contenders are Roy Hattersley, Labor's spokesman for domestic affairs, and Peter Shore, shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. Hattersley, who helped negotiate Britain's entry into the Common Market, surprised many by not breaking away to join the S.D.P. Nonetheless, he has made it clear he is at odds with Labor's manifesto...
...Finally, Eros published a piece that was erotic and artful: an eight-page "photographic tone poem" by Ralph Hattersley Jr., called Black and White in Color: African-American guy, European-American gal, both nude. They link hands; they kiss, in silhouette; and in the last shot they press against each other. The mood is chaste and a little solemn; no pubic parts go public. Yet this was the feature that got Eros hauled into court. Several commentators wondered at the time, and I do now, whether the essay would have been deemed so objectionable if the two people had been...
...formal reappraisal of Labor's direction, following three straight electoral losses to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives. With an eye toward broadening party appeal, Labor promised to reassess even such sacred party tenets as state ownership of industry and unilateral nuclear disarmament, which Deputy Party Leader Roy Hattersley called the "major vote loser" in the past election. Party Leader Neil Kinnock said, "We have got to appeal to the voters we need...
...Thatcher, who must call national elections by the summer of 1988. "There's bound to be political fallout," says a prominent London banker. "The muck will be raked by the media and the opposition parties, and some of it will stick." Though no government official has been implicated, Roy Hattersley, deputy leader of the opposition Labor Party, has charged that support for the City's "sleazy undercurrent of corruption is the inevitable extension of Tory economic philosophy...
...visit by emphasizing her opposition to apartheid and insisting that her government would maintain the present arms embargo against South Africa. On Saturday, as the two leaders met for lunch, 7,000 demonstrators gathered at London's Trafalgar Square, where they heard Deputy Labor Party Leader Roy Hattersley call Botha's visit "an insult to Britain's black and Asian population." Still, like the other European governments, the British recognized South Africa's importance as a trading partner and as a political power. In the words of a Thatcher aide, the government...