Word: manifestos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about to cast the first stone." Europeans were equally cautious in their analysis. Noted one senior British diplomat: "The trend in almost all European countries is for a new leader, whether of the left or the right, to dilute the more radical policy pronouncements of his election manifesto and resort to good old pragmatism...
Enter Richard Nixon, attuned to the public mood. In language that could have been taken from any liberal Democratic manifesto, Nixon proclaimed: "Something very like the honor of American democracy is at issue. America has come to the aid of one starving people after another. But the moment is at hand to put an end to hunger in America itself for all time." At his behest, Congress in 1970 passed amendments to the National School Lunch Act that gave the program its current structure...
...resolution calling for Britain to pull its troops out of Northern Ireland. Subsequent votes turned down leftist proposals on nationalization and withdrawal from NATO. But a conference vote for unilateral nuclear disarmament fell just short of the two-thirds majority necessary to make it mandatory policy in the party manifesto. Then it voted overwhehningly to pull out of the European Community...
Last week Shadow Cabinet Home Secretary Roy Hattersley, Healey's chief strategist, warned that the left's attempt to take control of the party manifesto "will alienate millions of our supporters, tearing the party into tatters and denying us the electoral victory the country needs." Noted the London Observer: "A fundamental battle about the nature of the Labor movement is now joined, with not only its policies but its whole direction within the body politic at issue...
...expensive. Two months ago the powerful, conservative Mormon church joined the naysayers, beseeching the White House not to station the MX in Utah and Nevada. Then a brace of hawkish Republicans, Senators Paul Laxalt of Nevada and Jake Garn of Utah, marched into the Pentagon with their own panicky manifesto denouncing the Air Force's plan to put MX in their states. Next Congress's Office of Technology Assessment chimed in with a careful report that found serious fault with each of the proposed deployment plans. There has been comparatively little debate on the need for the missile...