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...ENGLAND TRADITIONS die hard. In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for instance, tourists continue to through to Faneuil Hall, the official Bay State beverage is still cranberry juice and in the political realm of the House of Representatives, Thomas W. McGee remains crown prince and dictator at the State House. The 59 year-old ex-Marine from Lynn is still among the most enduring of institutions on Beacon Hill, a man whose iron lock on the legislative process has long gone unrivaled by his elected colleagues. He has held the prestigious job of Speaker of the House for the past eight...
...recently collected 120,000 signatures below a petition calling for salary cuts, greater individual responsibility on the part of representatives and an end to the abuses perpetrated by the Speaker. Though rejected as unconstitutional tampering with the internal affairs of the House by the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth, the petition helped prod the legislators into action. Five measures, including mandatory ratification of all leadership and chairmen appointments; a new procedure for discharge of bills lost in "Siberian" committees; and a clause requiring that bills be made available in print 24 hours prior to debate (to avoid...
...will be for at least until 1985. In the meantime, Thomas McGee has left no doubt that he will use any means to justify his ends--and remain in power. Only with his departure, therefore, will Massachusetts fully embark on an experiment in responsible self-government. Until then, the Commonwealth will probably retain the dubious distinction accorded to it by the historian Samuel Eliot Morison as "the least efficient and most corrupt of modern state governments...
Even Thatcher's sturdy friendship with Ronald Reagan suffered strains when American troops invaded Grenada, a Commonwealth member. The Prime Minister asked the President by telephone not to go through with the operation; afterward, she uttered her harshest words yet about the U.S. Said Thatcher: "If you are going to pronounce a new law that wherever Communism reigns against the will of the people the United States shall enter, then we are going to have some really terrible wars." She opposed U.S. reprisal attacks in Lebanon, where Britain had contributed 100 men to the 6,000-member Multi-National...
...turbulent year drew to a close, Thatcher remained steadfast as ever. In India for the Commonwealth Conference, she presented an award to Poet Mahadevi Varma, quoting lines she might have written herself...