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...leading to victory a listless, often divided Labor Party that has held power for just three of the past 34 years. Claiming about 74 seats in the 125-seat House of Representatives (an approximate swing of 22), Hawke and his Laborites ended the 7½-year reign of Incumbent Malcolm Fraser and his Liberal/ National Party coalition. Fraser, a three-time winner whose majorities in 1975 and 1977 were the largest in Australian history, tersely conceded defeat. Then, pale and close to tears, he stunned supporters by announcing his immediate resignation as Liberal leader...
...goin'?" Seizing the offensive on the campaign trail, Bob Hawke, 53, is not about to waste a long-awaited opportunity enhanced by some providential timing. On the same day that the way was cleared for Hawke to assume leadership of Australia's Labor Party, Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser unexpectedly scheduled general elections for March 5. In the space of barely a month, the charismatic and impatient Hawke could thus be catapulted from party expert on industrial relations to Prime Minister...
EXPECTING. Mary Steenburgen, 29, Academy Award-winning actress (Melvin and Howard); and her husband, Malcolm McDowell, 39, actor (A Clockwork Orange, Cat People); their second child; in July...
...Malcolm X thought the raucous nature of the Birmingham marchers had signaled the entrance of a new breed of Black into the civil rights movement, turning it into an all Black revolution. Malcolm X was referring to the tendency of King's rearguard demonstrators, and Black spectators along the route of the Birmingham marchers to attack the police by using violence themselves. Malcolm X was more correct in his version of what happened in Birmingham. His sequence is the framework one needs to explain what happened there with respect to white and Black reaction and to establish the casual connection...
...more excellent way of love and non-violent protest." He did so with a courage and eloquence that responded in quality to DuBois' poignant fear about his son's future. A great deal of social turmoil would erupt in the years following the Birmingham protests. The Black revolution that Malcolm X predicted held sway in riots, police confrontation, and in race relations strained to the breaking point. King himself sought to move closer to this revolution by heading street marches in Chicago and Memphis. Through the tumult rang his steady voice of courage and faith. It recalled the eloquence...