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After a further decade of debate, in 1983, JTS voted to admit women for ordination as Conservative rabbis, also without adopting an explanatory responsum.
" The re-election of a Conservative government in 1983 and the defeat of left-wing parties in continental Europe " made the deployment of Cruise missiles inevitable and the movement again began to lose steam.
Since 1983 it has been part of the parliamentary constituency of Hastings and Rye ; the current MP, since 2010, is Amber Rudd of the Conservative Party.
One unusual link between Falwell and Conservative rabbi Arnold Resnicoff, a Navy chaplain, was created when President Ronald Reagan surprised the participants at Falwell's " Baptist Fundamentalism ' 84 " convention in Washington, D. C., by choosing to read Resnicoff's on-site report of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing as his keynote address.
The Daily Mirror was the only major newspaper to back Foot and Labour at the 1983 general election, urging its readers to vote Labour and " Stop the waste of our nation, for your job your children and your future " in response to the mass unemployment that had resulted from Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher's monetarist economic policies to reduce inflation.
However, the Conservative government's majority had come down from 144 in 1983 to 102.
In 1973, 1983, and 1993, individual rabbis and professors issued six major opinions which influenced change in the Conservative approach, the first and second Sigal, Blumenthal, Rabinowitz, and Roth responsa, and the Hauptman article.
In 1982 he won a famous by-election in a Conservative seat and returned to parliament ; but after disappointment with the performance of the SDP in the 1983 election he resigned as SDP leader.
Speaking to the Aldershot and North Hants Conservative Association on 4 February 1983, Powell blamed the United Nations for the Falklands War by the General Assembly resolution of December 1967 that stated " its gratitude for the continuous efforts made by the Government of Argentina to facilitate the process of decolonisation " and further called on Britain and Argentina to negotiate.
The area ( initially as Kidderminster, then after 1983 as the Wyre Forest constituency ) has been represented by Conservative MPs Gerald Nabarro 1950 – 63, Sir Tatton Brinton 1964 – 74, Esmond Bulmer 1974 – 87, Anthony Coombs 1987 – 97, and Labour MP David Lock 1997 – 2001.
This policy was controversial with the public and even some of her own Members of Parliament ( MPs ) ( as well as former Conservative prime ministers Harold Macmillanand Edward Heath ), but her success in the Falklands war led to a recovery in her popularity which contributed to the Conservative victory in the 1983 general election.
He continued as a central figure on the left of the party and, at the 1981 Conservative Party conference, openly criticised the government's economic policies – namely monetarism, which had seen inflation cut from 27 % in 1979 to 4 % by 1983, but had seen unemployment double from around 1, 500, 000 to a postwar high of more than 3, 000, 000 during that time.
* Geoffrey Clifton-Brown ( 1899 – 1983 ), British Conservative Party politician
Martin Brian Mulroney, ( born March 20, 1939 ) was the 18th Prime Minister of Canada from September 17, 1984 to June 25, 1993, and was leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1983 to 1993.
( 1981 – 83 ), Secretary of State for Trade and Industry ( 1983 – 85 ), Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ( 1985 – 87 ) and Chairman of the Conservative Party ( 1985 – 87 ).
" Thatcher herself stated in 1983: " I would not mind betting that if Mr Gladstone were alive today he would apply to join the Conservative Party ".
David Amess, born in Plaistow, who is a Conservative MP, representing Basildon from 1983 to 1997 and Southend West since 1997.
The constituency was represented from 1983 to 2010 by John Gummer of the Conservative Party.
* Edwina Currie — former Conservative MP ( 1983 — 1997 )
The constituency was created in 1983 and was served by Charles Wardle until the 2001 election, when Wardle left the Conservative party.
Since 1983, Ripon has been part of the Skipton and Ripon constituency, a Conservative Party stronghold.
The constituency was created in 1983 and was represented by a Conservative MP from 1983 to 1997.
On 12 March 1983, after unsuccessfully contesting Bournemouth West and other constituencies, Hamilton was selected as the Conservative candidate for the newly-created Tatton constituency.

1983 and Prime
Robert James Lee " Bob " Hawke AC GCL ( born 9 December 1929 ) is a former Australian politician who served as the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991.
After a decade as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he entered parliament as a Labor MP at the 1980 federal election and became Prime Minister within three years, leading Labor to victory at four consecutive federal elections: 1983, 1984, 1987 and 1990.
Its membership, which had fallen to 32, 000 from a peak of 110, 000 in 1983, increased threefold after Prime Minister Tony Blair made a commitment to nuclear energy.
* 1915 – B. J. Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa 1966-1978 ( d. 1983 )
* 1904 – Sir Keith Holyoake, Prime Minister of New Zealand ( d. 1983 )
On 14 October 1983, a power struggle within the government resulted in the house arrest of Bishop at the order of his Deputy Prime Minister, Bernard Coard who became Head of Government.
When US troops withdew from Grenada in December 1983 Nicholas Braithwaite of the National Democratic Congress was appointed Prime Minister of an interim administration by the Governor General Sir Paul Scoon until elections could be organised.
Minor parties include the left-of-center Maurice Bishop Patriotic Movement ( MBPM, organized by the pro-Bishop survivors of the October 1983 anti-Bishop coup ) and the populist GULP of former Prime Minister Gairy.
GCHQ had a very low profile in the media until 1983 when the trial of Geoffrey Prime, a KGB mole within GCHQ, created considerable media interest.
* 1890 – Frank Forde, Australian politician, 15th Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1983 )
The coalition split in 1983, with Anerood Jugnauth forming the Mouvement Socialiste Mauricien ( MSM ), which became the governing party, with Jugnauth as Prime Minister.
In 1972, he headed a Soviet delegation to Belgium, and three years later he led a delegation to West Germany ; in 1983 he headed a delegation to Canada to meet with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and members of the Commons and Senate.
He was the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1983 until 1992, making him the longest-serving Leader of the Opposition in British political history to date, and the longest never to have become Prime Minister.
* 1983 – Operation Urgent Fury: The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d ' état.
* 1983 – Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and later executed in a military coup d ' état led by Bernard Coard.
* 1983 – Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $ 2 million bribe from Lockheed and is sentenced to 4 years in jail.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, for example, represented Sedgefield in County Durham from 1983 to 2007.
* February 11 – Sir Keith Holyoake, Prime Minister of New Zealand ( d. 1983 )
Fraser served over seven years as Prime Minister, and left the Liberal leadership after the Coalition was defeated in the March 1983 election.
It detailed the payment of US $ 7 million by the president of ENI, Florio Fiorini through Roberto Calvi to the Italian Socialist Party ( PSI ) leader Claudio Martelli on behalf of Bettino Craxi, the socialist Prime Minister from 1983 – 1987.
Abel Muzorewa, the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia, visited Israel on October 21, 1983.
It was in December 1983 announced from the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada that Trudeau had put forward Sauvé's name to Buckingham Palace as his recommendation on who should succeed Edward Schreyer as the Queen's representative.
The most notable were the SportsChannel networks, which went on the air in 1976 with the original SportsChannel ( now MSG Plus ) and later branched out into Chicago and Florida ; Prime Network, which went on the air in 1983 with the charter member being Home Sports and Entertainment ( now FSN Southwest ) and later branched out onto the West Coast as " Prime Sports "; and SportSouth, the RSN operated by Turner Broadcasting.

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