Word: kinnock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After deliberating for nearly five hours at London's Old Bailey courthouse, a jury of nine men and three women found the British publisher of the book, titled Inside Linda Lovelace, innocent of obscenity charges. Linda declared herself "ecstatic," but others were less pleased. Groused Labor M.P. Neil Kinnock, when told that court costs would be paid out of public funds: "The taxpayer has just contributed ?20,000 to the promotion of a soft-porn book because of our stupid obscenity laws...
...Common Market nations. Another proposal: sell it to the Soviet Union, which is willing to buy up to 26.4 million gal. at rock-bottom prices. A third solution: give some of the excess to soldiers, hospital patients and inmates of old folks' homes. British Labor Party M.P. Neil Kinnock, an interested EEC observer, declared last week, "We must drain this wine lake in a way that can benefit people who deserve a tipple. In these lunatic circumstances, perhaps we had all better get drunk...