WORLD : Labor Abandons Unilateral Policy
Britain’s opposition Labor Party dropped its commitment to unilateral nuclear disarmament today as part of a wide-ranging policy review aimed at breaking Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s 10-year grip on power.
The party’s national executive voted 17 to 8 in favor of a new policy under which a Labor government would cut British nuclear weapons only in return for reductions by the Soviet Bloc. The new policy was derided by the ruling Conservatives. “I expect it will turn out to be unilateralism in a different wrapping,” Thatcher told Parliament.
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