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LONDON: As his Conservative Party teeters on the brink of defeat for the first time in 18 years, Prime Minister John Major called a national election for May 1. Deprived of its majority in parliament and assailed on all fronts, from health care to European Union policy, the Conservatives trail the Labour Party by as much as 27 percentage points in the polls. Labour, the party once known for its nationalizing fervor and close union ties, now styles itself as a more progressive version of the Conservative Party. Like Major, Labour leader Tony Blair promises to be tough on crime...
LONDON: As his Conservative Party teeters on the brink of defeat for the first time in 18 years, Prime Minister John Major called a national election for May 1. Deprived of its majority in parliament and assailed on all fronts, from health care to European Union policy, the Conservatives trail the Labour Party by as much as 27 percentage points in the polls. Labour, the party once known for its nationalizing fervor and close union ties, now styles itself as a more progressive version of the Conservative Party. Like Major, Labour leader Tony Blair promises to be tough on crime...
...Having just re-written the [RUS] constitution we are at the brink of something very special," Phillips wrote in her pre-election platform. "Up with RADWAC, up with activism...
...Asia, battered Japan is back from the brink of disaster. After little growth in 1995, it last year recorded 3% growth, the fastest among the big industrial economies. Meanwhile, China, its expansion having run amuck two years ago, has managed to pull off a "soft landing" by cutting back inflation without a recession...
...festival of new plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Naomi Wallace's drama of life and lust during the 1665 London plague was the most ambitious, affecting, memorable. Wallace has a luxuriously poetic turn of mind and a gift for locating the heart of people on the brink of epiphany or despair...