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...most serious charge: that she has failed to turn the policies of her first term into a clear blueprint for her second. Increasingly, the criticism has come from her own party. The most serious challenge was on the economic front. Last June, Thatcher campaigned on a hastily drafted manifesto calling for, among other things, reductions in taxes and government spending. Last week John Biffen, a leader in the House of Commons, publicly criticized the policy. In a television interview, he cast doubt on the government's ability to cut taxes, and made it clear that he was utterly opposed...
...debate (NEIGHBORHOOD-POWER, NUCLEAR-ARMS), and climb "branches" of subsidiary messages (GIVE-PEACE-A-CHANCE, NUKE-EM-ALL). As subsequent callers add their own opinions, the trees can grow into dense thickets of give and take. In Santa Cruz, Calif., a conference called START-A-RELIGION began with a manifesto that declared, "Religion is too important to be left to the churches or to the profiteers," and invited tree people to "create one we can be comfortable with." Ten months later, the computer had become so clogged with ideas that the Sysop was forced to delete 95% of the messages...
...this time, saying they feared that its "focus on a broad range of issues is likely to limit its impact." Bayard Rustin, stage manager of the original event, was another prominent no-show in 1983. Some Jewish organizations, angered by language in an early version of a march manifesto implying disapproval of the level of U.S. arms shipments to Israel, also decided to withhold support. In the end, however, the offending passages were toned down, and one of the march prayers was led by Rabbi Alexander Schindler, head of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations...
Perpetual adolescence is the tennis players' manifesto, but the bad news is that it might not even be the worst problem in the sport. In fact, it may not even be seeded. Though Britishers might be shocked to think that there is anything in tennis less becoming than McEnroe, the game probably is at its prettiest for Wimbledon. It is possible that there are only three moments of legitimate professional tennis all year: the French Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open. The rest may well be Roller Derby...
...whose Welsh charm has won him friends throughout the party and substantial support from the trade unions. On the moderate side, the leading contender was Roy Hattersley, 50, Home Secretary in Labor's outgoing shadow cabinet. Hattersley, unlike Kinnock, was at odds with Labor's controversial campaign manifesto, which called for unilateral disarmament and British withdrawal from the European Community. During the campaign, however, he kept his criticisms to himself and dutifully stumped for Foot...