Word: fulham
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Although London's Fulham is one of the smallest election districts in Britain, last week's by-election there was hailed by many as the most important of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's seven years in power. With unemployment in Fulham running at 13%, and many people outraged by a recent government decision to increase pensions by only 55 cents a week, the Conservatives seemed likely to take a beating. Few were surprised, therefore, when Labor's Nick Raynsford won the seat handily. It was Labor's most impressive by- election victory since Thatcher first came to power...
Camp authorities contended that they gained advance intelligence about the phony attack from the FBI and other law enforcement agencies, a claim that is hotly disputed by Coughlin & Co. In any case, insisted Base Commander Major General Donald J. Fulham, there is no way to secure completely a 110,000-acre facility that is home to 40,000 servicemen and their families. Keeping the base relatively open, he said, was important to both the Marines and the surrounding community. To do otherwise would be "disrupting the American way of life...
General Donald Fulham, commander of Camp Lejeune, instructed parents not to pay. They were further advised to forward the tuition invoices to designated unit officers, who in turn would present them to the Defense Department in Washington. Not long after the bills were sent to parents, the Department of Justice joined eight servicemen stationed at Camp Lejeune in a suit filed in U.S. district court in Raleigh, N.C., to ask a judge to declare the tuition plan unconstitutional. A ruling is expected by the end of next month...