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...Under a banner that read MOVING AHEAD, party leaders and 1,400 mostly dispirited delegates agreed to a formal reappraisal of Labor's direction, following three straight electoral losses to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives. With an eye toward broadening party appeal, Labor promised to reassess even such sacred party tenets as state ownership of industry and unilateral nuclear disarmament, which Deputy Party Leader Roy Hattersley called the "major vote loser" in the past election. Party Leader Neil Kinnock said, "We have got to appeal to the voters we need...
...province definitively buried the separatist banner last June, when it agreed to ratify Canada's 1982 federal constitution. In return, Quebec won passage of amendments recognizing it as a "distinct society," giving the provincial government increased power to preserve French-Canadian culture and allotting it the right to nominate three of the country's nine Supreme Court justices. "Quebec has won one of the greatest victories of her history," exulted Bourassa. His elation was shared by Canada's Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, himself a bilingual Quebecer, who could personally claim much of the credit for the deal that finally...
...billion in ticket sales. That nosed out the previous mark of $1.58 billion achieved in 1984. Back then it was a handful of such blockbusters as Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Ghostbusters and Gremlins, each of which reeled in more than $100 million, that led to the banner year. This season, with the exception of the Eddie Murphy triumph Beverly Hills Cop II, which has pulled in $151 million, a dozen or so lesser hits are doing the job. Among them: The Untouchables, Roxanne, Dirty Dancing and La Bamba...
...evening news was topping their grisliest nightmare jokes. To be an angry young comic was, it seemed then, to engage psychotic adults on their own terms. The only answer was to drop out of the comic's traditional adversary relationship to power and, instead, parade an anarchic childishness. Their banner might have read HELL, NO, WE WON'T GROW UP. In Britain, Monty Python's Flying Circus tossed music-hall bawdry into a Dada format, and at home National Lampoon updated sick humor with a stinging Wasp edge. They were vicious; they were silly; they couldn't care less...
Suriname won its first gold medal ever at the pool. Anthony Nesty's record swim in the 100-meter butterfly brought out a bright national banner with the wonderful slogan A DIRT WAGON CARRIES DIRT, BUT IT DOES NOT CARRY SHAME. There were old names too. Saving her heptathlon for the coming world championships in Rome, the regal Jackie Joyner-Kersee focused on the long jump and equaled East German Heike Drechsler's 24-ft. 5 1/2-in. world mark. With Carl Lewis standing by for his own turn at the long jump and Greg Louganis still perched on his diving...