Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Callaghan, who easily recaptured his home constituency in Wales, now becomes leader of the opposition. He will be less tormented by the Labor Party's left wing, many of whose zealous members went down to defeat in marginal districts. So did the most able woman in his Cabinet, former Education Secretary Shirley Williams, 48. Another loser, predictably, was onetime Liberal Leader Jeremy Thorpe, 50, who soon faces trial on charges of conspiracy and incitement to murder a man who claimed to be his lover. A Tory easily bested eight other candidates to take Thorpe's North Devon seat...
After Labor twice defeated the Tories in the 1974 elections, Heath's leadership came under sharp attack, especially from his party's right wing. The two leading rightist candidates, Sir Keith Joseph and Edward Du Cann, declined to run for the leadership, while Heath could not make up his mind whether to fight or resign. Backed by Joseph, Norman St. John-Stevas, a Tory intellectual, and Airey Neave, who became her campaign manager and one of her closest advisers,?Thatcher stepped boldly into the arena. At a party caucus on Feb. 11, 1975, she defeated the acknowledged favorite, William...
With her visceral "conviction politics," Margaret Thatcher sometimes comes across as a right-wing ideologue, but she is far too savvy to build a government in her own image. For one thing, Britain's new Prime Minister is enough of a realist to recognize that a Cabinet stacked with right-wingers would be as divisive for the country as it would be for her own broad-based party. For another, she needs and wants experienced lieutenants, which means re-enlisting a number of proven moderates from Edward Heath's 1970-74 administration...
...vital area of economic policy, which she rightly judges will make or break her government, Thatcher will rely heavily on very trusted aides who share Joseph's fiscal views. Sir Geoffrey Howe, 52, a former left-wing Tory long since converted to tight money and tax cuts, became Chancellor of the Exchequer. John Nott, 47, a tough Cornishman once fired by Heath as too inflexible, became Secretary for Trade and Prices. John Biffen, 48, a deceptively shy but zealous right-wing purist and nationalistic opponent of the Common Market, was named Chief Secretary of the Treasury, in effect, director...
...Taraki is bitterly opposed by some tribesmen and mullahs who believe that the "democratic republic" he is building has put their customs and their Muslim heritage in jeopardy. Reflecting the Kremlin's concern about the troubles afflicting Kabul's new rulers only 13 months after a left-wing military coup put them in power, Pravda has declared the rebels to be "gangs of saboteurs and terrorists sent from the outside" and trained by the U.S., China and Egypt. For a firsthand look at how the regime and the rebellion are faring, TIME Correspondent David DeVoss spent five days...