71.  The moderate Jeffords had long been at odds with his increasingly conservative party over such issues as abortion and gay rights, environmental protection and taxes.

72.  The main opposition Conservative party campaigned against the move.

73.  The phenomenon of new conservative parties is taking hold even in traditionally liberal countries like Denmark and the Netherlands, as well as Scandinavia.

74.  The positions taken by the Labour party and its main rival, the ruling Conservative party, differ little.

75.  The previous government, controlled by the conservative RPR party, had twice tried to sell Thomson-CSF.

76.  Their stated aim is to prevent candidates from the ruling Liberal and opposition conservative party from increasing their political power.

77.  This is the first conservative party in Central Europe to take power back from parties controlled by former Communists.

78.  Traditionally, American Jews support Labor Party candidates, not those of the conservative Likud party.

79.  Ultraconservatives from right-wing intellectuals to criminal syndicates have always maintained discreet contacts with the conservative governing party, the Liberal Democrats.

80.  US diplomats had seen the new conservative party as a potential ally in the US campaign against President Fidel Castro of Cuba.