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...Labor Party for demanding that Britain scrap its nuclear arsenal, ban U.S. nuclear bases and prevent U.S. ships carrying nuclear arms from entering British waters. If a future Labor government should put such policies into operation, Weinberger warned, the result could be the dismantling of NATO. Labor Leader Neil Kinnock, whose fellow party members are expected to reaffirm a no-nukes stand this week at their annual conference in Brighton, condemned Weinberger for meddling in British politics...
...took up their positions on the rooftops and security men disguised themselves as bewigged footmen. By 10 a.m. the first of the 1,800 guests began taking their seats in the abbey. First Lady Nancy Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher were in attendance, along with Opposition Leaders Neil Kinnock, David Owen and David Steel. So too were Actor Michael Caine, TV Host David Frost and Singer Elton John, sporting purple glasses and a ponytail...
...Social Democratic Party Leader David Owen was less harsh, but maintained that Britain should have taken the Libyan issue to the United Nations. Later in the week, after two British hostages in Lebanon were murdered, apparently in retaliation for Britain's cooperation with the U.S., Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock blamed Thatcher, saying the hostages had been "abandoned to their fate...
...fight of her political life. "The Prime Minister is on trial," thundered Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock. Facing a packed and unusually hostile House of Commons, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher last week set out to convince Britons that she had told the truth about her role in the "Westland affair," a complicated brouhaha over the future of a British helicopter company that had already brought down two of her Cabinet ministers. Her voice sometimes quavering and cracking, she meticulously presented her case. "Doubtless," she admitted, "there were a number of matters which could have been handled better, and this...
...believe, however, that Brittan's resignation will end the questions about Thatcher's role in the affair. An emergency parliamentary debate is scheduled this week on the Westland controversy. Labor Leader Neil Kinnock gave the Prime Minister a taste of the attacks she can expect when he called the leak the action of a government "not just rotten to the core but rotten from the core." Thatcher is certain to respond in kind...