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Politics, quite literally, is the voice box of the people. Every four years we need the opportunity to throw the bums out, and all through the four years we need the right to keep the fellows scared to death that they might be thrown out. Doesn't Carter yet realize that campaigning forces him (and others) to think, take positions, clear fuzzy parts of the brain? The game measures the men. It is tiring and wasteful, but that is always the price for democracy, where competition substitutes for autocracy...
...Tory lead steadily dwindled; two days before the election one poll even showed a slight Labor edge. There seemed little doubt about the reason for the decline: the personality of Margaret Thatcher. To avoid a major gaffe by their outspoken leader, Tory strategists designed a media campaign to keep her on camera but away from confrontation. Nevertheless, Thatcher's sometimes hectoring, sometimes condescending manner irritated many voters. In one poll last week, she ranked behind both Callaghan and the Liberals' David Steel as a campaign performer. In the end, though, the desire for change proved overwhelming, and on election...
...accounts the Thatcher family is a close-knit foursome, and Husband Denis is a cheery, supportive consort. Although the Thatchers last week began moving into the impersonal family quarters at No. 10 Downing Street, they will keep their Chelsea house. How much of their Chelsea routine can be kept is another matter. Normally, Thatcher is up at 6:30 a.m. to cook Denis' breakfast and do the shopping before heading off for Parliament. She likes sales and takes pride in being a bargain hunter. But time has become so precious that for the past few years she has bought...
...separatist doctrine is the party's raison d'etre. He originally drafted the policy in his book, An Option for Quebec, soon after he left the Quebec Liberal Party in 1967. Only Trudeau's popularity in Quebec exceeds that of Levesque's. The Quebec leader has wisely chosen to keep a low profile during this federal campaign, secretly hoping for Trudeau's demise, while recognizing that support for Clark would label him a traiter in his home province. Trudeau, mean-while, has denied the right of Quebec to separate and refuses to negotiate sovereignty association. Clark has said he would...
SOMETIME LAST YEAR Derek Bok decided to take the offensive. After all, why should those noisy radicals from the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) get all the attention, while he had to keep his so-meticulously-worked-out, delicately-balanced investment policy to himself and the Corporation Fellows? If Bok was to convince the world that he genuinely cared about ethical issues, he needed a media campaign...