Word: kinnock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Neil Kinnock was a worried man as he mounted the podium in Blackpool last week. As the Labor Party met for its annual conference, the latest polls showed that only one voter in four expects it to form a government in the next ten years. He knew that once again his leadership was on trial...
...turned his campaign over to a certified dirty trickster. In truth, Sasso's misdeeds were exaggerated by the Goody Two Shoes moralism of the early Democratic contests. The Biden videotape merely coupled the Senator's public words with those of his rhetorical twin, British Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock. A more serious breach was Sasso's ill-advised effort to keep the truth about his role from Dukakis. But there is a long political tradition of forgiving transgressions -- especially when the candidate doing the forgiving suddenly finds himself lagging in the polls...
...group was released after 90 minutes, and later received an apology from President Robert Mugabe. While Kinnock downplayed the incident, accounts of his failure to display a stiff upper lip provoked chuckles at home...
Poor Neil Kinnock. Sinking ever lower in the polls, the leader of Britain's Labor Party embarked on an eleven-day goodwill tour of southern Africa designed to lift his ratings. En route from Mozambique to Zimbabwe last week, Kinnock and his entourage landed by mistake at a tiny military airstrip near the Mozambican border. Instead of a welcoming party, the plane was met by Zimbabwean soldiers, armed with Soviet-made AK-47 automatic rifles, who herded Kinnock's 15-member group into a whitewashed...
Furious at such treatment, Kinnock traded profanities with a rifle- brandishing lance corporal before joining the others inside. Leaning out of the hut, Kinnock challenged the soldiers to ask the corporal "if he knows who I am," and vowed that "he won't be a lance corporal very long...