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...under the Alliance banner since 1981, and began talking merger when their candidates won only 22 of 650 seats in last year's parliamentary elections. But while their formal marriage was intended to strengthen future showings, it sealed a bitter divorce between the Social Democrats and former Leader David Owen, who co-founded the party in 1981. Arguing that the Social Democrats would be swallowed up by the Liberals, Owen bolted with a clutch of followers to form a new party, the Campaign for Social Democracy...
Emotions ran so high before the vote that Owen's backers refused to sleep in the same hotel as the promerger forces. Social Democratic President Shirley Williams angrily accused Owen, a former Labor Foreign Minister, of "acting with impetuosity at the moment of crisis" and warned that "all of us will be losers" if the proposed union did not pass. "Mergerites" tried to block a rally that Owen had called to launch his group, but they backed down after both sides assembled legal teams...
...vote delighted members of the Liberal Party, which approved the merger three weeks ago. Liberal Party Leader David Steel said the wide margin of approval "means that both parties can go forward together not just with confidence but with enthusiasm." Robert Maclennan, who succeeded Owen as head of the Social Democrats, declared that the newly formed party "has a great opportunity to take British politics out of the straitjacket of Conservative dominance...
...Cleary's gold-medal winning line were his brother Bob '58, and Bob McVey, '58. Together that line produced four of the six third-period goals that keyed the team's comeback victory over the Czechs in the championship game. Defenseman Bob Owen, '58 also played a key role for the squad...
...performances in this film are uniformly excellent. Billy Crystal's casual, off-hand humor is the perfect match for DeVito's likable, offbeat portrayal of Owen's schleppy innocence. Crystal manages not only to be funny but also to be an attractive, charismatic leading...