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...uncertain world." She unveiled a manifesto that would further toughen Tory policies on trade unionism, denationalization of state-run industries and big-city metropolitan councils. In so doing, Thatcher drew the battle lines with the opposition Labor Party in the bleakest terms. "The choice before the nation is stark," she intoned, "either to continue our present progress toward recovery or to follow policies more extreme and more damaging than those ever put forward by any previous opposition...
That metamorphosis is symbolic of a sweeping transformation that is creating a New Economy. It is a two-tiered economy marked by swift change and stark contrasts. While traditional smokestack industries are reeling from foreign competition, surging high-technology companies are leading the world in innovation. Though hundreds of thousands of blue-collar assembly-line workers have lost their livelihoods, white-collar engineers have had their pick of high-paying jobs. Last year 25,346 businesses went bankrupt, the most since the Great Depression, but 566,942 new companies opened their doors. Says Delaware Governor Pierre du Pont...
Reagan decided three weeks ago to make a major speech on Central America, initially at the urging of CIA Director William Casey and U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. Both argued for a hard-line anti-Soviet address that would cast the region's problems in a stark East-West context. Kirkpatrick wrote an article last month arguing that denying aid to the Salvadoran government and the Nicaraguan insurgents "would be to make the U.S. the enforcer of [the late Soviet President Leonid] Brezhnev's doctrine of irreversible Communist revolution." In another article, Casey wrote that the problems in Central America reflected...
...Charles Stark Draper Laboratories, Cambridge's largest nuclear weapons parts manufacturer with more than $116 million in contracts annually, has staunchly opposed the referendum drive and is one of the first firms to question the measure's constitutionality. Joseph F. O'Connor, vice president for administration at Draper, said last week that a local law which affects national security violates the constitutional provision for "the common defense...
...lean, fierce beauty with the presence and intensity to scald the screen, a very young actress with the looks and cold nerve to strip off her clothes at the end of Witold Gombrowicz's stage drama, The Operetta, as her role required, and finish the play stark naked. She was a star in Warsaw's film and television Industry, and on the stage of the city's famed Drama Theater, since her second year at the Academy of Theatrical Arts. A year and a half after she left Warsaw, almost certainly not to return, she is still...