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...replaced Michael Foot, 70, who had tendered his resignation after presiding over Labor's worst defeat in 65 years, when Britons in June re-elected the Conservative government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Kinnock's bandwagon rolled over three party heavyweights: the center-right's Roy Hattersley, 50, Leftist Veteran Eric Heffer, 61, and Peter Shore, 59, a moderate spokesman on economic affairs. The battle for the deputy leader's post proved much sharper. With Kinnock's tacit support, Hattersley defeated Leftist Michael Meacher, 43, thereby establishing what party faithful called "the dream ticket...
...left, who lost his seat in Parliament in the election. Last week's front runner was Neil Kinnock, 41, a staunch leftist whose Welsh charm has won him friends throughout the party and substantial support from the trade unions. On the moderate side, the leading contender was Roy Hattersley, 50, Home Secretary in Labor's outgoing shadow cabinet. Hattersley, unlike Kinnock, was at odds with Labor's controversial campaign manifesto, which called for unilateral disarmament and British withdrawal from the European Community. During the campaign, however, he kept his criticisms to himself and dutifully stumped for Foot...
...negotiated settlement. Abandoning negotiations, warned Social Democrat M.P. David Owen, the Foreign Secretary in the last Labor government, would mean "abandoning the U.N. charter, Britain's friends and allies, and, even more important, Britain's moral authority on the issue." Senior Labor M.P. Roy Hattersley predicted "a permanent state of siege" in the Falklands and disclosed that "all sensible people know there has to be some accommodation with the Argentines...
...British naval headquarters for news of the fate of their loved ones. Special telephone lines installed to pass on information to next of kin were jammed with calls. In the destroyer's namesake city, Union Jacks were lowered to half-mast. Sheffield's Lord Mayor Enid Hattersley was on the verge of tears as she asked mournfully, "What is worth losing young lives for? One is too many." The re-action of most Britons was summed up by a Portsmouth man, who said he "had thought we might lose some because of the weather in the South Atlantic...
...reckoned with in British politics. Margaret Thatcher, who watched the results on TV in her private quarters at 10 Downing Street, had every reason to pay close attention to the victor. Some newspapers described Williams as the probable successor to the Prime Minister. As Labor M.P. Roy Hattersley put it: "Acknowledging Mrs. Williams' extraordinary ability to walk spotless through the minefield of party politics requires neither graciousness nor chivalry. It is a simple fact...