The World : British A-Plants Opposed

Britain’s opposition Labor Party called for phasing out the country’s 18 nuclear power plants in a “decades-long process,” ignoring pleas from unions that thousands would lose their jobs and “the lights would go out” when coal supplies are used up. But a stronger motion that would have committed the party to nuclear plant closures within five years failed at Labor’s annual conference in Blackpool. The party, in its bid to oust Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative Party, also adopted a motion pledging to apply sanctions against South Africa because of its apartheid policies.