Word: steel
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...eight words attached to a motion that went on for a full page. But at the annual conference of Britain's Liberal Party last week in the resort city of Eastbourne, those eight words provoked an impassioned three-hour debate, led to a humiliating defeat for Party Leader David Steel and could quite conceivably affect the course of the next general election. By the thin margin of 27 votes, out of a total 1,277 cast, delegates passed a motion calling on Britain to assume a more active role in bolstering NATO, "providing that such a defense capability...
...Liberals thus rejected a painfully crafted compromise between Steel and their alliance partners, the Social Democrats, advocating a continued role for Britain's independent nuclear force. The rebuff could not be overlooked by the Social Democrats, whose party was founded five years ago by former Labor Party members, largely because of their opposition to Labor's call for unilateral disarmament. Social Democratic Leader David Owen said he was shocked by the vote, which he called a "very serious blow." Steel admitted that the outcome of the vote was nothing less than a "breathtaking misjudgment." With the two parties split...
...Harrogate two weeks ago, the Social Democrats called for a coordinated European defense effort, including possible Anglo-French "collaboration" on a joint nuclear deterrent. The Liberal leadership warmly endorsed the resolution, which also urged renunciation of Britain's participation in the Strategic Defense Initiative, popularly known as Star Wars. Steel pronounced the measure "secure and forward looking...
...lapidary essay. But that has never been his aim or his claim. Random House Editor Sam Vaughan accurately notes that "King is one of those rare writers with both a cult and a mass audience." And Barnes & Noble Buyer Ronda Wanderman ungrammatically observes, "King goes beyond horror like Danielle Steel goes beyond romantic fiction." Columbia English Professor George Stade probes further. The King novels, he maintains, "are not so different from the Sherlock Holmes stories, Dracula or Tarzan. We need these guys around, and we tend to read them more than we read James Joyce." The author cherishes few illusions...
...time when American outrage against South Africa is on the rise, goes much farther. It bans all new American investment in and bank loans to South Africa, as well as air traffic between the two countries. It also prohibits the import of South African uranium, coal, steel, textiles, military vehicles and agricultural products...