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Taking a beating at Blackpool...
Even before the 3,000 delegates arrived at Blackpool's Winter Gardens, the annual Labor Party conference in the Irish Sea resort was shaping up as a struggle between militant leftists and the party's centrists. On one side, determined to win more support for Britain's unpopular 30-week coal miners' strike, was Arthur Scargill, 46, the Marxist president of the National Union of Mine workers. On the other, with an eye on Labor's sagging ratings in the polls, was Party Leader Neil Kinnock...
...pits and pension off 20,000 miners. About 50,000 of the country's 180,000 miners are still working despite the union walkout. So far, 817 police have been injured and 7,000 strikers arrested. As he sat with his N.U.M. delegation on the conference floor in Blackpool, Scargill was served with a contempt of court order for his failure to allow a strike vote. He dismissed the citation as an attempt "to take away the democratic right of our union to deal with our own affairs...
...marry Keays, although he admitted that he had promised to do so. The disclosure prompted a number of Tories to call for Parkinson's head, but Thatcher characteristically decided to see the crisis through. She even asked conference organizers to arrange a warm welcome for him at Blackpool...
...Parkinson affair was merely the most visible of Thatcher's concerns last week. Indeed, even before Blackpool, she was on the defensive against, of all things, accusations of aimless drift and indecision. The most serious charge: that she has failed to turn the policies of her first term into a clear blueprint for her second. Increasingly, the criticism has come from her own party. The most serious challenge was on the economic front. Last June, Thatcher campaigned on a hastily drafted manifesto calling for, among other things, reductions in taxes and government spending. Last week John Biffen, a leader...