Word: kinnock
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...Polite and businesslike" was the way White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater described last week's meeting between British Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock and President Ronald Reagan. "Cool tending toward frosty" might have been more apt. The President criticized Labor's call for British nuclear disarmament, saying it not only hurt NATO but "undercut our negotiating position at Geneva...
Labor Party Opposition Leader Neil Kinnock denounced Lawson's presentation as a "bribes budget," charging that the plan "has little to do with the general good and everything to do with the general election." Leaders of the Alliance, a union of the Social Democratic and Liberal parties, were no less critical. Said Social Democratic Leader Dr. David Owen: "The Chancellor talks a lot about prudence while handing out the goodies...
...early trip to the polls is all the more attractive because of the disarray in the Labor Party, which has been battered by the divisive antics of its far-left wing and by its calls for unilateral nuclear disarmament. Kinnock will try to recover ground this week when he is set to meet with President Reagan in Washington and tell him that he supports keeping U.S. cruise missiles in Britain as long as U.S.-Soviet arms-control talks continue. Meanwhile, Thatcher will burnish her foreign policy credentials when she travels to Moscow next week to confer with Soviet Leader Mikhail...
...Spartacist League/U.S., the American section of the International Spartacist tendency, protested British Labour Party Leader Neil Kinnock during his American tour last week. both in Cambridge and Washington, D.C. At Harvard's Kennedy School, Dec. 2, we gave her Majesty's opposition the welcome he deserved, under the slogan "Protest Strikebreaker Kinnock." In solidarity with the British miners, whose strike Kinnock helped to break, we sought to expose his role as a labor-faking, class betrayer of workers and Celtic people, particularly during the miners' bitterly fought 12-months long battle against Thatcher's government. Kinnock endorsed racist cop terror...
Nearly every British newspaper and media source--from the BBC to the Tory Telegraph covered the Spartacist protests. First The Crimson deep-sixed our protest. Then on December 6 you ran a picture of our anti-Kinnock demo at the K-School, smearing it as a pro-CIA protest at Amherst. Did our sign linking "Social Democracy from Harvard to London Financed by the CIA" upset the Big Liars in The Crimson basement to the point of shredding the wrong stack of photos? More likely it was a CIA-style "disinformation" on behalf of Harvard's fat bosses...