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...parties because even a spilled drink can lead to a shooting. Police say some black inner-city youths use guns as fashion accessories. In London last year, 20 of the city's 22 gun homicides were the result of black-on-black crime. Simon Hughes, a Liberal Democrat frontbench M.P. for a South London constituency, says "the culture isn't limited to youngsters of Caribbean extraction but is spreading out into other black communities, and into Turkish and Balkan ones." While last week's headlines prompted calls for stronger action against gangs, the government's first reaction was to lash...
...recent months, Mrs. Thatcher has become the Conservatives' principal frontbench spokesman on economic and tax policy. A feisty debater, she has repeatedly discomfited Labor ministers with relentlessly logical and prodigiously well-informed attacks. Her continuous salvos against the Wilson government's proposals for higher tax rates on inherited wealth finally provoked Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey to call her "La Pasionaria of Privilege."* Mrs. Thatcher's rejoinder: "Some Chancellors are macroeconomic, some are fiscal; this one is just plain cheap...
...shadow minister for colonial affairs, dapper, dagger-tongued Angus Maude, wrote in the Spectator that "the Opposition has become a meaningless irrelevance," Heath called him on the carpet of his West End bachelor flat. When Maude emerged 30 minutes later, he announced his resignation from Heath's frontbench...
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