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...spokesman for industrial relations. Last weekend he was elected Prime Minister of Australia, leading to victory a listless, often divided Labor Party that has held power for just three of the past 34 years. Claiming about 74 seats in the 125-seat House of Representatives (an approximate swing of 22), Hawke and his Laborites ended the 7½-year reign of Incumbent Malcolm Fraser and his Liberal/ National Party coalition. Fraser, a three-time winner whose majorities in 1975 and 1977 were the largest in Australian history, tersely conceded defeat. Then, pale and close to tears, he stunned supporters...
...power of Hawke's personality has so far given Labor a 52%-to-42% lead in the latest polls. A state election two weeks ago in Western Australia resulted in a startling 7.8% swing to Labor, which now controls four of Australia's seven regions. But Labor has often before led in the polls and lost at the polling booths. If Fraser is the man many Australians love to hate, Hawke may be the one they are loath to embrace. The Australian Financial Review, for example, portrays Hawke as "everybody's mate, but maybe not the person...
Chrysler managed to make money despite a recession-induced 7.9% drop in sales of its cars and trucks (from 1.3 million in 1981 to 1.2 million last year). The swing factor was $239 million from the sale last March of the company's Michigan-based tank division to General Dynamics. Chrysler continued to lose money on operations, but the $69 million operating deficit was such an improvement over the $555 million operating deficit in 1981 that it was cause for cheer. Except for a painful five-week strike at Chrysler's Canadian assembly plants last fall that cost...
...fated McGovern campaign. He is included in the somewhat nebulous group known as "neo-liberals," who stress the need for a pragmatic approach by business, labor and Government to adapt the economy to an era of high technology. The theme of the election, he said on a campaign swing through Mississippi after his announcement, is "Who represents the future the best?" Hart has put together reams of position papers (and a book to be published next month) dealing with his ideas on making the military stronger but less bloated, reforming the tax code with a "consumption tax," and guiding...
...woman who answered the phone in the Bowdoin Athletic Office yesterday didn't even know the school had a woman's hockey team. And on the home swing of its two-day trip through Maine, the Harvard squad almost overlooked that fact...