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...then Brown stumbled, and the ball bounded wildly forward, and the script for the thrilling classic was abandoned for a disastrous ad lib...
Britain's P.M. watchers had been expecting Callaghan to move ever since the sagging Liberal Party walked out on the 17-month-old "Lib-Lab" pact in August, taking with it its 13 crucial parliamentary votes. That left Labor nine votes short of a majority-and, in the opinion of most analysts, with little choice but to go to the polls. Instead, Callaghan evidently patched together a working majority by bargaining for the 14 yeas and nays held by Welsh and Scottish Nationalists. These extra votes should enable Callaghan to survive a Tory test of confidence in November, when...
...early ones serve as painless reminders of the way we were before women's lib, the sexual revolution, Viet Nam and Watergate. But Kerr's later work is disquieting because it goes on as if none of these things had happened. A little malice, at least, now seems to be the order...
...outraged women 's lib...
...Saints' Day, a Christian feast that commemorates the spiritual heroism of the early martyrs, has a double significance to the French. With a canny sense of symbolism, Algeria's fledgling Front de Libération Nationale (F.L.N.) chose Nov. 1, 1954, as the day to launch its rebellion. In the wintry mountains of the Aurès, Muslim djounoud (soldiers of the faith) attacked a police station at Biskra, wounding two gendarmes. At Khenchela, a lieutenant, Gérard Darneau, was mortally wounded by machine-gun fire-the first French officer to die in the conflict...