Word: kinnock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Neil Kinnock, opposition leader of the British Parliament, plans to convince tonight's audience at the Institute of Politics (IOP) that total elimination of England's nuclear arsenal and withdrawal of U.S. nuclear forces from great Britain would not threaten the security of Europe...
...Kinnock plans to run as the Labor Party's candidate for Prime Minister in Britain's next general elections, to be held sometime before...
...Much of Kinnock's success has come despite a bold -- and, for Britain, potentially dangerous -- policy on national defense. Labor delegates last week overwhelmingly reaffirmed the party's commitment to abandon Britain's independent nuclear deterrent and close down all six U.S. nuclear bases in the country. That antinuclear posture has helped Kinnock unite his party, but he is gambling that it will not alienate mainstream voters and cost Labor the election, as it was largely responsible for doing in 1983. If a Labor government under Kinnock carries out that policy, the blow to the alliance would be greater than...
Labor's shadow Foreign Secretary Denis Healey accused the U.S. of "bullying Britain." Kinnock replied to Washington's warnings with similar bluntness. He served notice that a Labor government would withdraw from the protection of the U.S. nuclear umbrella after closing down American nuclear bases in Britain. In a BBC interview he said, "If we're not prepared to use the weapons systems ourselves, we certainly would not be asking anyone else to jeopardize themselves by the use of that nuclear weapon. It would be immoral...
...Kinnock also claimed the Perle and Weinberger blasts did not have the backing of the White House. But U.S. Ambassador to Britain Charles Price, who attended the Blackpool conference, instantly replied that the two Pentagon officials indeed spoke for the Reagan Administration. Price said U.S. views should be made known so that Labor's defense policy "can be put on the table for examination when the British people come to vote...