The World - News from Oct. 3, 1989
In a major policy reversal, Britain’s opposition Labor Party dropped its once-cherished policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament. At its annual conference, the party voted to adopt a new platform that would commit a Labor government to scrapping Britain’s nuclear weapons only in a negotiated arms deal. Ditching the non-nuclear doctrine, a factor in Labor’s successive defeats by Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher since the party lost power in 1979, is part of a major policy overhaul.
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