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Resolution of the leadership struggle comes as a welcome relief to the problem-plagued Conservatives. In the past 20 years the party has been in power only briefly, after Clark unseated Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's Liberals in 1979. But that fledgling Tory government fell after only 6½ months, the victim of Clark's brash style and unpopular austerity measures. Although Clark continued as Tory leader until stepping down in January to allow last week's convention, he was dogged by a reputation as a loser, and the party was torn by internecine squabbling...
...however, it is the Liberals who are in trouble. Since regaining his office from Clark, Trudeau has grappled unsuccessfully with Canada's limping economy while unemployment has risen above 12%. Trudeau has said he would not lead his party in another election. Whoever does may be in for trouble. A recent poll indicated that only 32% of voters favor the Liberals, while 50% prefer the Tories. If the untested Mulroney holds on to that lead, he could become the next Prime Minister...
...Trudeau's presence set the lone for the afternoon's program in which all three student speakers sprinkled their remarks with references to the characters of his Doonesbury strip. Like Trudeau the student speakers also referred to the supposed apathy among today's youth toward everything but personal fulfillment...
...point Trudeau illustrated this theme with references to the Crimson implying that the paper's intricate Merrarctal structure--which accords all staff members the title of editor--served little more than the desire among students for "massive resume padding...
During a brief visit in the newspaper's Plympton St. offices after his address. Trudeau padded The Crimson's Comment Book with a sketch of his cartoon's namesake. Mike Doonesbury, who has been out of public view since Trudeau began his 18-months break in January...