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Margaret Thatcher never minced words during her 11 1/2 years as British Prime Minister, and will not do so now. But she exaggerates the changes her country's Conservative government has set in train since an intraparty revolt four months ago replaced her with her Chancellor of the Exchequer, John Major...
...rescue plan. As a follower of supply-side economics, he shuns any new taxes, will not go to Wall Street to do more borrowing and wants to give businesses some tax relief. "I can't imagine a sharper break with the past," Weld said last week. Except for the chancellor of the board of regents, who resigned in protest, most of Weld's constituents so far seem to believe they deserve Weld's bitter medicine now that Massachusetts has an unemployment rate of 8.6% and has swallowed three huge tax increases since...
...years, 68 schools in Prince George's County, Md.; Plymouth-Carver, Mass.; St. Joseph, Mo.; Montrose County, Colo.; Harlem, Ill.; and dozens of other districts guarantee defect-free graduates to prospective employers. These small districts may soon be joined by the nation's largest, New York City, where schools chancellor Joseph Fernandez has proposed a pilot program starting as early as this fall...
...billion and $9 billion, respectively. Germany also pledged to send antiaircraft missile units to Turkey and defensive military equipment to Israel. Japan assigned five military C-130 transport aircraft to repatriate Asian workers fleeing the war zone. Yet so powerful is their nations' abhorrence of war that Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu risked political rebellion...
...have arrived when these two nations must begin to find a constructive international role commensurate with their economic strength. Some prominent Japanese agree that the country's pacifism has become in practice isolationism. Kohl echoed that view with respect to his country last week. Addressing the Bundestag, the Chancellor said, "There can be no safe little corner in world politics for us Germans. We have to face up to our responsibility, whether we like...