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...appeal of the real. The press is the Holden Caulfield of the political game, always on the alert for phonies. Gary Hart was nabbed for philandering, and Joe Biden was caught barking up Neil Kinnock's family tree, but the media's primary target became Gephardt's populist pretensions. The Missouri Congressman needed to peddle the antiestablishment line to revive his stalled Iowa campaign, but he only invited ridicule when he imported nearly 40 congressional insiders to join him on the barricades. In contrast, the blandness of Bush and Dukakis was often exasperating, but it stemmed so naturally from their...
When Brown refused to read a formal apology, his colleagues voted to suspend the Scottish M.P. for four weeks and ordered him to pay the $1,800 cost of repairing the silver-gilt mace. Brown enraged his party's leader, Neil Kinnock, who assailed him for "loutishness...
...Neil Kinnock, the leader of the opposition Labor Party, last week challenged Thatcher's decision to go along with Kuwait's investment, noting the Prime Minister's statement three months ago that the Kuwaitis had assured Britain they "had no ambition to control BP, nor any interest in any management role." The Labor leader questioned how binding those assurances really were. Said he: "This is obviously a matter of public interest and concern...
...reputation as Parliament's most outrageous figure. Dubbed "Red Ken" by the London tabloids, Livingstone, 42, is famous for his unabashed support of leftist causes and for launching indecorous assaults on government officials. He is also, not coincidentally, a major pain in the aspirations of Labor Leader Neil Kinnock, who wants to broaden his party's appeal by staking out more moderate positions. When Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher won a third * five-year term last year, Livingstone and others on Labor's "loony left" got much of the blame for the Conservatives' success...
...Northern Ireland, one of his favorite issues. In November, after a bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army killed eleven people in the town of Enniskillen, Livingstone caused another furor by saying Ulster was Britain's Viet Nam and predicting that the I.R.A. would win the conflict. Livingstone defied Kinnock by demanding that Britain cut its defense budget and withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. By warning of a civil war within the party, he embarrassed Kinnock into dropping plans for a review of Labor's nonnuclear defense policy...