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...attempt to control the center, the two moderates have taken conflicing stances within their own party platforms, so that support from both left and right will be scattered in both camps. However, Bentsen's strong support from organized labor may be the trump card that allows him to eek out a narrow victory...
...Vise group, as a result, is using the arrests as its trump card is agitating for the settlement of the dispute. Already, the group has organized a 300-student demonstration cum administration building occupation to push for building general amnesty for those arrested, and further plans to stage demonstrations on behalf of the library workers and the arrested students during Brown's upcoming freshman parents' weekend...
...Nazis decided not to tamper with the Games. Canada's objections had come far too late for the I.O.C. to consider a change of venue for the Games. Declared Killanin: "It would appear that we've done everything possible to uphold our principles." The I.O.C.'s trump card, he added, was its moral stand. Nonetheless, the Canadians refused to budge...
...soft peach glow of the great rotunda, moving up to the shrinelike cases that hold the documents. Honeymooners Karen and Philip pause for long moments. Bonnie, a senior on her class trip from Starbuck, Minn., traces with her fingertip the familiar signatures: G. Washington, B. Franklin. Principal Dennis Trump, shepherding 40 students from South Sioux City (Neb.) High, says with fervor, "It's a feeling of splendor to see the things you hold dear. All the meaning and truth of the whole idea come together...
Perhaps this explains why Wilson decided to play his trump card--his indispensability to the Labour party. Only Wilson can hold together the centrist Labour M.P.s and the radical, trades union-based leftists. Which is what he is trying to prove. No replacement for him is in sight, no one acceptable by both wings of the party (the closest available is Jim Callaghan, the Foreign Secretary). By thus calling the bluff of his party rivals, Wilson will be able to return to office with his power and reputation refurbished. The Labour Party cannot afford to do without Wilson at this...