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WORLD, Page 52World NotesBRITAINUnbanning The Bomb
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.
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.
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."