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...nation European Community. But from his post in Brussels he gradually became disenchanted with Labor's inexorable leftward drift. In 1979 he put forward the heretical proposition that Britain needed a new party of the center, occupying the middle ground between Labor and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's right-leaning Conservative government. Home again last year, he joined other like-minded Laborites, including former Foreign Secretary David Owen and onetime Education Secretary Shirley Williams, to form the new Social Democratic Party...
...determined, since the appeal of the alliance has fluctuated considerably in opinion polls during the past four months. In December a survey by Market and Opinion Research International showed the Social Democrats riding high as favorites of 44% of the electorate. In early March, though, just after the Thatcher government had produced its something-for-everybody budget, the S.D.P.-Liberal share had fallen sharply to 27%, placing the party third after the Tories and Labor...
...help Conservative Candidate Malone, the Thatcher government tried some canny pocketbook appeal from London. New taxes on alcohol, announced Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey Howe 16 days before the election, would fall more lightly on Scotch whisky than on wine. The government also issued a well-timed announcement that Glasgow's derelict Queen's Dock would be transformed into a $55 million industrial exhibition center...
...produced 41 governments since World War II. Too divided to pursue a cohesive foreign policy, Italy has traditionally occupied the second rank in international councils. No longer. While grass-roots pacifism and economic crisis progressively undermine the authority of West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Italy is quietly becoming, along with France, one of NATO's most forthright European advocates. Says Pertini: "We maintain that our country has to make its presence felt very strongly in foreign affairs...
...obtain, despite repeated attempts. Evans is said to be bound to silence by his severance agreement, but friends maintain that the real issue was politics. Under Evans the Times was sympathetic to the new centrist Social Democratic Party, while Murdoch reportedly wanted the paper behind Tory Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher...