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...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 46% of the vote, Labor with 37% and the Alliance with 16%. Thatcher's margin over Labor was down 6 percentage points from the previous week's MORI poll, but London bookmakers were still giving 7-to-l odds that the Prime Minister...
...Thatcher's senior advisers had pointed out to her in a weekend meeting at Chequers, the Prime Minister's country estate, she is in a stronger position than any other British political leader since World War II. The latest MORI (Market and Opinion Research International) poll showed the Conservatives ahead with 49%, compared with 34% for the Labor Party and 15% for the Social Democratic Party/Liberal Alliance. Thatcher would have preferred to hold elections later in the fall or even next year, but her advisers urged her not to delay. Local elections a week earlier had confirmed recent...
...hard to beat as an example of dunderheaded, pointless slaughter. The men who fought it hated it just as much?and even in the same vocabularies?as the men who fought in Viet Nam. They went into it with the same illusions: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, Horace told the boys in the public schools. John Wayne played the part of Horace in America. But finally, after Passchendaele in 1917, Lieut. General Sir Launcelot Kiggell saw the thing honestly. He looked out at the mud-soaked fields, burst into tears and muttered: "Good God, did we really send...
...only at the insistence of his publisher, the author hurriedly speaks of old agonies, the balm of forgetfulness, and of his conviction that all wars are futile and immoral. There is even the ritual reference to what Wilfred Owen called the old Lie: "Dulce et decorum est/ Pro patria mori"- how sweet and beautiful it is to die for one's country...
...England Conservatory Scholarship Chamber Quartet--works of Mozart, Kodaly, and Schubert; Sachiko Mori, violin; Peter Slowik, viola; Koji Yanagulda, cello; and Carol Rankin, plano; Jordan Hall...