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...were preparing for a bruising and perhaps fateful showdown this Sunday between the extremists and its old-line socialist faithful at the party conference in Brighton. Meanwhile the new Social Democratic Party, formed last March when a group of prominent Laborites broke away because of the party's leftward lurch, forged an alliance last week with the centrist Liberal Party. Object: to capture the moderate middle, Parliament and No. 10 Downing Street...
...Grumman-built Prowler dropped in for touchdown, the Nimitz's landing signal officer, in charge of directing aircraft approaches, saw that it was too high and swinging dangerously leftward-and then too far right. By radio he ordered the pilot to gun his engines and fly clear of the deck, a routine procedure for aborted landings. But Marine Lieut. Steven E. White, 27, did not-perhaps could not-obey. His plane skidded at 145 m.p.h. onto the flight deck past the last of the arresting cables and caromed some 500 ft., its right wing lopping chunks off parked jets...
...violently, endangering the survival of their strained coalition. The Communist Party, which had supported Mitterrand in the final round of the presidential contest, was clamoring for Cabinet posts as the price of past and future votes. France's allies, meanwhile, worried privately about the nation's seeming leftward lurch, even as they cabled formal congratulations to the President-elect...
...Carter or Reagan, is the independent candidacy of John Anderson. The Illinois Congressman appears to be slipping in the polls, as third-party candidates generally do; the question is where his votes are going. So far, they seem to have gone mainly to Reagan, probably because Anderson has moved leftward on many issues. But the Congressman's staunchest support is thought to come from liberals deserting Carter. Thus, the Republicans, though believing that Anderson may be hurting them in some areas, are generally rooting for him to stay in the race while the Democrats are trying to push...
Labor lurches leftward in a rowdy party conference...