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Williams' triumph, she declared, was the result of "a crusade against the growing extremism in British politics." That crusade had begun a mere nine months ago when Williams, along with a dozen other M.P.s of the Labor Party, had bolted in protest over Labor's lurch to the left and formed the S.D.P. At that point, the party was little more than an idea whose time seemed yet to come, but its centrist, common-sense positions promptly attracted dissidents from Labor disgusted with the party's swing left and Tories equally fed up with the intransigence...
...Europe continued to fear that the U.S. might leave it in the lurch. The worry even has a term in the NATO strategic lexicon: decoupling. Europe's anxieties grew in 1977 when the Carter Administration began the SALT II negotiations with Moscow. The resulting pact did not cover the SS-20 missiles. To counter these weapons, President Carter proposed stationing a new generation of U.S. intermediate-range missiles in Europe, while proceeding with arms limitation talks. The offer was readily accepted by the Europeans, including West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. That acceptance has come home to roost...
...banal or irrelevant. Even so, SRI can point to some impressive successes. SRI's brainstorming technique zeroed in early on the nationwide trend toward home health care and quickly held seminars on the subject. In addition, TEAM sessions in the spring of 1980 focused on the rightward political lurch in the U.S. and the growth of religious fundamentalism...
Teele tallied the most recent Lowell House touchdown--in 1978. Gathering in a pass from then-quarterback Mark Geppert, he scampered more than 50 yards for the big six. Soon therafter, Teele decided to take some time off from school, leaving his squad in something of a lurch...
...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...