Word: kinnock
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...Washington, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater denounced the policy as "unacceptable until conditions in Viet Nam improve." In London, opposition Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock assailed the move as a "shameful episode," accusing Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of acting ! "tyrannically." Thatcher denounced Kinnock's criticism as "feeble and nonsense" and, in a swipe at the U.S., noted acidly that "those countries protesting about repatriation would do far better to take some of the boat people themselves." While the U.S., Canada, Australia and France have all taken many boat people in the past, none have offered shelter to those now facing...
...Neil Kinnock, the Labor Party leader, pounced on the government, accusing the Tories of "putting cash before care" and "profits before patients." Labor health spokesman Robin Cook said the proposal would "put bureaucrats in the driving seat at the expense of doctors and patients," and denounced it as a "prescription for a health service run by accountants...
...conference had started well enough for Kinnock. He easily defeated a left-wing attempt to replace him and won endorsement of a key policy document for reforming the party and making it electable again -- mainly by forsaking the goal of wholesale nationalizations. Then he delivered a confident, well- applauded speech in which he called on Labor to come to terms with the "fact of the market economy." He sought to seize the initiative from Margaret Thatcher's Tory government with his emphasis on environmental issues, individualism and competitiveness. When Kinnock insisted that no "slide to the right" was involved, leftwing...
...might retain nuclear weapons while a Labor government took part in arms talks. But the conferees, led by Ron Todd, head of the Transport and General Workers' Union, instead endorsed unilateralism and called for the removal of all nuclear weapons and bases from Britain. Todd had earlier responded to Kinnock's keynote address with anger. His temper rising as he spoke, the union leader derided Kinnock's supporters as "all sharp suits, cordless telephones, glossy pink roses and winning smiles...
...leader, who knows that for his party to have a realistic chance of governing again, it must embrace unified and politically acceptable positions, watched it succumb to yet more division. Many supporters echoed the hopes of John Edmonds, head of the General Municipal Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union, that Kinnock "has won the party by his speech." But another senior union boss warned, "If Neil retreats from the gunfire of Todd and drops any part of his reform program, he'll be out as leader. Not tomorrow, not next week or next month. But before the next election...