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...every recent issue, from his vocal support of striking unions this summer to his wavering over the Falklands expedition. Added to the Bermondsey election debacle, these persistent problems have prompted some Labour Party leaders to urge Foot to hand the mantle to Healey, leaving the party time to rebuild before the general elections...
...repeatedly that the John Birch Society has been "victimized" by that and other incidents. That may be so. A negative media blitz against the Society escalated just after it began to establish a sense of legitimacy the public had never before allowed. Since then, the Society has tried to rebuild itself by softening some of its earlier stances while still maintaining that a decentralized powerless national government will cure society's ills...
...Reagan ran a five-cent-a-gallon increase in the gas tax through a lame duck Congress anxious to melt out of Washington for the Christmas holidays. The tax, which was signed into law on January 6, is designed both to raise more than $5 billion a year to rebuild the nation's crumbling highways and bridges, and to aid mass transportation. Coupled with the rise in the tax on fuel are increases in taxes on truck parts, truck road use, and truck sales. From the point of view of the American Trucking Association (ATA)--the industry's major voice...
...Karnataka, which had supported the Congress Party since India became independent in 1947. More elections were scheduled in the Union Territory of Delhi last weekend and in the troubled northeastern state of Assam next week. Whatever the outcome of these contests, Mrs. Gandhi will have to work hard to rebuild her party in time for the 1985 national elections, when she hopes to win an unprecedented fifth term as Prime Minister...
...measure of Andropov's political skill that he managed to form an alliance with Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, a crucial maneuver in his rise to the top. Says French Sovietologist Hélène Carrère d'Encausse: "Andropov came to the KGB with a double mission: first, to rebuild an efficient police apparatus, and second, to transform it into a modern, effective instrument of the party. He succeeded on both counts." What the security operation lost in brute force it more than made up in political power under Andropov. In 1973, he was granted full membership on the Politburo...