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...Conservative government last March. Kinnock lashed out at his party's militants, declaring that "impossible promises do not win victories." But Scargill had the votes, and the resolution to reimburse the miners' union passed by a 55% majority. Kinnock left the delegates with a warning that unless they mend the fissures in the party, Labor's chance for an election victory will be slim. His point was made clear by a poll last week that showed the party trailing the Liberal-Social Democratic Alliance in popularity 33% to 35%. The troubled Conservative government scored only...
...Public Health Service, sounding offended by a chaos that beggared his means to cope. Indeed, for prac- tically everyone in the convention hall, nuclear war would be the ultimate professional frustration, not the ultimate challenge: With suffering and death so vast, whom to rescue and whom to mend? Where to erect the police barricades? Theirs is not so much a fascination with disaster as it is a half-religious, half-martial hankering to see what they can do to help. Nuclear holocaust would be too big to handle. Murphey, for all his quixotic zeal, understands perfectly the indifference...
Gold medals were taken by sophomore Mike Mend (2-0) at 118 lbs., sophomore Kevin McGinty (3-0) at 167 lbs., tri-captain Barry Bausano (2-0) at 177 lbs., and tri-captain Sean Wallace...
...Administration openly "tilted" toward Islamabad during the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war. Following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which Mrs. Gandhi refused to condemn outright, the U.S. began to supply Pakistan with heavy arms aid. Some U.S. officials predicted last week that relations between the two countries, already on the mend, might improve un der Rajiv. And so they may. But they will still be restricted by the fact that the U.S. is committed to providing Pakistan with $3.5 billion in American arms...
...aware of the nuances of social behavior. It's appalling that young people graduating from Vassar, Harvard and Stanford don't know the meaning of an RSVP. They often don't show up when they're invited, or they show up with a date." To mend their ways, Baldrige charges a sobering $3,500 a lecture, $6,000 for a full-day seminar...