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...Alliance, 17 were captured by Liberal candidates and only six by Social Democrats, whose party was formed by disgruntled Laborites in 1981. Two of the S.D.P.'s principal founders, former Education Secretary Shirley Williams, 52, and onetime Transport Secretary William Rodgers, 54, lost their elections. If the Alliance won relatively few seats, however, it did claim 25% of the popular vote and could eventually become a formidable political force. The Alliance nearly outpolled Labor, which had 28% of the vote, while the Tories...
...York City writer who slept with about two dozen women in the first months after his divorce. "It was painful for them and me too." Says a Chicago bar owner: "All the happy-go-lucky singles in my place tell me that they do not want a relationship. Then six months later they are engaged." A businessman in the Boston area, currently in mid-divorce, is swearing off the one-night stand. "I don't want it, don't need it and don't believe in it," he says. "I hope to find one person to share my life with...
...female television personality in New York, a veteran of the sexual scene in the early '70s, later joined a loosely structured "celibacy club" of women who went out socially in groups of six or eight to avoid sexual entanglements. Says she: "It's hard enough for a woman to get ahead in this business without waking up in a different bed every morning...
...stands are really looking for further commitment," she says. Nancy Boltz, a nurse at the University of Southern California, says students age 20 and over want long-term relationships. Some younger students sleep around, but in these encounters the trappings of commitment are common. "They may only stay together six months," says Boltz, "but during that time they think they are in love...
...Armed clashes between rival political parties were reported across the country as polls opened; scores were injured and at least six killed. In Lahore, five party workers, including one candidate for former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League party, were killed on the eve of elections. On Saturday more than 40 Pakistan People's Party workers were killed when a bomb exploded at a rally in Pakistan's troubled North West Frontier Province. Sakina Bibi, 57, was undisturbed by the threat of violence as she waited patiently in line at a women's polling station in Rawalpindi...