Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million voters agree that the May 3 general election could be the country's most significant since World War II. If nothing else, the electorate will be presented with a clear choice, not an echo. Labor's standard-bearer is avuncular James Callaghan, 67, a soothingly familiar leader of his party with a simple message: jobs and trust. His Tory opponent is Margaret Thatcher, 53, determined to become not only Britain's first woman Prime Minister but a rigorously conservative one as well. Her message to the voters was equally plain and concise: tax cuts and freedom...
...aides against any personal attacks for fear of a backlash. Women make up more than half of the electorate, and polls show that more women vote Conservative than vote Labor. Somewhat surprisingly, working-class women tend to favor Thatcher more than middle-class women do, and the Tory leader can discuss supermarket prices with a housewife's familiarity. Nevertheless, Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey last week could not resist a quip about former Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath's all-out efforts in the campaign. Said he: "It is the first time that the Ancient Mariner...
...U.S.S.R. so they can practice their faith without government restrictions, most notably on the religious education of their children. In Kiev last month, newly released Baptist Prisoner Pyotr Vins was twice assaulted by police thugs after trying to arrange his family's emigration. His father Georgi, national leader of dissident Baptists, was due for release from a labor camp March 31 but still faces five years of Siberian "exile...
...that rate, there is minimal support from Western Christians for Protestants who want to leave. That may change. Amnesty International has launched a major campaign on behalf of imprisoned Protestants, calling for protest letters to Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev at the Kremlin. Among the many prisoners: the oft-jailed leader of a breakaway Seventh-day Adventist group, who has just been sentenced to five years of hard labor...
...form the most amorphous and isolated -though also the most pervasive-of all American minorities. Blacks and Hispanics, for example, are unified to a large degree by physical characteristics, history, customs and often socioeconomic position. "We cut across every socioeconomic line, every racial line," says Jean O'Leary, co-leader of the National Gay Task Force. "We're in every profession you can imagine." Says Robert L. Livingston, a gay member of the New York City commission on human rights: "Homosexuals are disco babies and Goldwater Republicans." He is not exaggerating: Donald Embinder, 44, gay publisher of Blueboy, something like...