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Another walk loaded the bases, and Petkunas was through for the afternoon. Mark Linehan was next in line, and he promptly gave up three consecutive singles to left, the last one a two-run grounder by Roy Henriksson making...
...surprise in the leadership fight has been not the strength of Callaghan but the drawing power of Party Left-Winger Michael Foot, who led the first ballot with 90 votes, to 84 for the Foreign Secretary. Home Secretary Roy Jenkins, a favorite of Labor intellectuals, polled only a disappointing 56 votes on that ballot. Along with two other contenders-Energy Secretary Anthony Wedgwood Benn, a leftist, and middle-roading Environment Secretary Anthony Crosland-Jenkins dropped...
...announcement, coming after days of massive demonstrations, may represent a compromise, Roy M. Hofheinz Jr., professor of Government, said yesterday. Hua, a leader from Mao's home province, is the chairman's personal choice but was appointed to his original position by Chou...
...there were six Cabinet members in the race. The early favorite-with London bookmakers as well as political analysts -is Callaghan, who, like Wilson, could best hold Labor's warring factions together. Yet he will probably have to face a runoff, perhaps against another moderate-Home Secretary Roy Jenkins, who is the hero of many Laborites disillusioned with old-style politics. Less likely is Employment Secretary Michael Foot, a stalwart of Labor's left wing. The chances of Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, another moderate, were damaged by his verbal abuse of the leftists during a recent...
ELOQUENT MANDARIN. Roy Jenkins, 55, currently Home Secretary, is the most eloquent right-of-center voice in the Labor leadership. He has the allegiance of a hard core of Labor intellectuals who are fed up with the political opportunism of the Wilson era and admire Jenkins' courage. He also has considerable appeal among the broader liberal community outside the party. In the early 1970s, when the Common Market was most unpopular, Jenkins risked a promising career by his unflinching advocacy of Britain's joining Europe...