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- WORLD, Page 43World NotesBRITAINElusive Harmony
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- Fledgling Prime Minister John Major could be forgiven for
- expecting his Conservative Party to seek a little harmony after
- the internal revolt that ousted Margaret Thatcher. No such
- luck.
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- Some Tories in the genteel spa town of Cheltenham staged a
- rebellion when they discovered that the candidate designated
- to run in the next general election is black. A local party
- member, Bill Galbraith, reportedly described nominee John
- Taylor, 38, a lawyer and a former government adviser on race
- relations, as "a bloody nigger." Others claimed that the
- nomination had been "bulldozed" through by a national party
- eager to elect its first nonwhite representative since 1906.
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- The party and local leadership promptly condemned the racist
- slurs and rallied around Taylor. But having promised upon his
- election to build "a country that is at ease with itself,"
- Major was reminded by the Cheltenham rebels just how hard that
- task is going to be.
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