Word: reactional
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Opposition to Thatcher's policies had been growing steadily-until the Labor Party conference. Before, every major poll showed Labor leading the Tories by ten to eleven points. Afterward, a Gallup poll indicated Labor's lead had dropped to three points in reaction to the bitter fracas. Tory analysts take this to be only a temporary reprieve. Says M.P. Peter Tapsell, a respected Tory backbencher: "We will make a bad mistake if we assume that Labor's shambles at Blackpool guarantee us victory at the next general election [in 1984]. Electorates turn out governments, not oppositions...
...which de Villiers ascribes to South Africa's current liberalization. "A society in the midst of change is at its most vulnerable," she notes. "The intellectual elite are expressing themselves daily in favor of profound political and economic change," she says, adding, "But of course, this has elicited a reaction from the conservative wing." In spite of questionable popular approval, the Nationalist government has legalized full African participation in trade unions. However, last August, Johannesburg officials arrested and deported 1200 African municipal workers striking for union privileges authorized in the reform...
...sensational. "The goal is a spectacular piece of film," says That's Incredible! Creator Alan Landsburg, 47, a veteran TV producer whose credits include the series In Search of . . . and the Jacques Cousteau specials. Landsburg will schedule any story "as long as we decide that the audience reaction will be 'Wow! That's incredible!' We opt for subject matter that is startling...
Gomes said yesterday he was "not surprised" at student reaction to his report, adding that his three models "were just meant to test the winds of the committee...
Iran, which bought virtually all of its military equipment from the U.S., lacks spare parts for its arms, thanks to the U.S. embargo. Considering the shortages believed to exist, the Iranian performance and relatively quick reaction to the Iraqi thrusts were unexpected, and Iran may well be girding for sustained combat. But so long as it holds the U.S. hostages, the Washington tap is not likely to open...