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...Ottawa, but in London. London, England. Rather than the party led by prime minister Pierre Trudeau battling to a verdict with the party led by Joe Clark, the final decision on the status of a Canadian constitution may come to rest with the followers of Margaret Thatcher and the followers of Michael Foot...
Europe's leaders have reached no consensus on what should be done about the crisis. Most countries are somewhere between Thatcher's monetarism and Mitterrand's Keynesian approach, a distance too great to allow for common policies. One of the more imaginative, if long-range, concepts is the plan of French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson, to press for sharp increases in aid to the Third World. This would generate demand for European products and therefore new jobs. Aid would mean trade...
...beat Benn, the moderates marshaled the help of powerful trade union barons, who made it clear that they would not tolerate another year of the damaging infighting that has deflected attention from burgeoning unemployment and the anti-union policies of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government. At the last minute, the moderates also got an unexpected assist from 35 of Benn's fellow leftist M.P.s who do not like his political opportunism. They cast their votes for a dark-horse leftist on the first ballot, then abstained on the crucial second ballot to give Healey the edge. Next...
...takeover of our party by the Trots, Stalinists and loonies who have really nothing in common with Tony Benn-whom I readily agree is sincere-in whose name they act." Said former Prime Minister James Callaghan: "Now we're in business again as a serious alternative to Mrs. Thatcher's awful Conservative government." Party Leader Michael Foot said the first step toward that end would be an "alternative economic strategy," a massive public works program to get Britain's 3 million unemployed back to work...
...Richard McAuley, a leader of the Sinn Fein, the political arm of the I.R.A., has admitted that under such circumstances the hunger strike was placing "little or no pressure" on the British to yield to the prisoners' demands for political status, though the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had shown no indication of doing so in any case...