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<text id=89TT1339>
<title>
May 22, 1989: World Notes:Britain
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
May 22, 1989 Politics, Panama-Style
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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WORLD, Page 52
World Notes
BRITAIN
Unbanning The Bomb
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<p> Having lost the past two national elections armed with a
platform of unilateral nuclear disarmament, the Labor Party
last week launched a strike against that controversial policy.
Its national executive committee overwhelmingly adopted a
proposal to scrap a 1981 commitment to dismantle Britain's
nuclear arsenal without any quid pro quo from other countries.
</p>
<p> Instead, Labor will emphasize British ties to NATO while
espousing the goal of ridding the world of nuclear weapons by
the year 2000. Labor's new position, which must be approved at
the party's annual conference in October, also asks NATO to
abandon its flexible-response strategy based on possible use of
tactical and strategic nuclear weapons and to renounce first use
of nuclear arms.
</p>
<p> Although Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ridiculed the
announcement as "unilateralism in a different wrapping," she
stood to lose a valuable advantage: an opposition wedded to
policies that guaranteed its remaining in opposition. As Tony
Blair, 36, Labor's spokesman on[energy and one of its rising
stars, emphasized, "The changes simply had to come. We couldn't
continue to live in the past."
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