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...blue suit and two-strand pearl necklace was among friends. "We regard you," gushed the local chairman, "as the finest leader this country has had since the days of Winston Churchill." Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, 57, savored the roar of approval, whipped out a copy of the Labor Party manifesto and held it aloft. "A member of Labor's shadow cabinet described this as the 'longest suicide note ever penned,' " she declared gleefully. "If the British people were to put their signature to it, it would be a suicide note for Britain too. Labor hopes...
...Like your manifesto, Comrade?" asks one heavyhanded Tory ad, going on to compare eleven points in the Communist Party manifesto with identical ones in Labor's. Among other policies, the manifesto would commit a Labor government to undertaking a hefty and inflationary public spending program, leave the European Community and expel U.S. nuclear weapons from Britain. But so far Labor's crusade has been ineffectual, especially over unemployment, which stands at a postwar high of 13.6%. According to one poll, even voters between 18 and 21, who suffer an especially high jobless rate, plan to vote Tory rather...
...greater disarray than on defense issues. The party's policy of opposing the installation of U.S. cruise missiles in Britain will, believes Teacher Geraldine Ellison in Norfolk, encourage the Soviets "to think we are weak." Labor also loses points for its infighting over defense. In line with the manifesto, Foot has maintained that Britain would be a "nonnuclear nation" by the end of a five-year Labor government. At the same time, the more moderate Healey was strongly implying that Britain's Polaris missiles would be retained if the Soviets failed to agree to reciprocal disarmament...
...Thatcher gambled that British voters would not want to risk jeopardizing an economic recovery, or Britain's commitment to a strong nuclear defense, by electing a Labor government committed to what she considers the dangerously quixotic schemes of Labor's left wing. The Labor manifesto, written by the party's left over the opposition of moderates, calls for a huge jobs-creation program, a ban on nuclear weapons, and withdrawal from the European Community. Thatcher's bet seemed safe: last week's Market and Opinion Research International (MORI) poll showed the Tories with...
...editors for the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the author of 30 books. His newest: How to Speak / How to Listen. With Educator Robert Maynard Hutchins, he compiled the Great Books of the Western World, 54 volumes of the world's classics. Last year he published The Paideia Proposal, a manifesto to reform U.S. primary and secondary education by instituting a standard and much more demanding curriculum. When he led the procession to Columbia College's commencement last week, however, the scholar was not there to give the main address. Mortimer Adler, still formidably active at 80, was getting...