Word: wembley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wembley, Australia
...Jesus. . . He will make such use of your lives as will be beyond your greatest expectations . . . Do not let the sight of the world in turmoil shake your confidence in Jesus. Not even the threat of nuclear war." Like the speech containing similar moral lessons the previous Saturday at Wembley Stadium, which was interrupted 25 times with warm applause from a youthful audience, his strict admonitions against self-indulgence and "sexual irresponsibility" were received with surprising equanimity...
...were adopted. The official party platform called for Britain's withdrawal from the European Community and extensive new nationalization of industry and finance. In addition, leading leftists angered moderates by advocating unilateral removal of nuclear defense weapons from Britain. The climactic blow came at a special conference in Wembley last month, at which Labor M.P.s voted for a rules change that will give the bloc-voting unions and the left-leaning local committees a stranglehold over selection of the party leader. At that, Williams and three other former Cabinet ministers established a breakaway "Council for Social Democracy," the first...
Even former Prime Minister Sir Harold Wilson joined the fight, dismissing the Wembley vote as "a shambles" and heaping scorn on Benn's devotion to "the divine right of shop stewards...
...several party elders, including Foot, Deputy Leader Denis Healey and Shadow Home Secretary Roy Hattersley, are committed to reversing the Wembley ruling...