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Just after he was elected to lead Britain's limping and divided Labor Party last week, Neil Kinnock and his wife Glenys took a stroll along Brighton beach for the benefit of photographers. As the cameras clicked, Labor's new standard-bearer tripped and fell into the chilly surf. Picking himself up, with a grin on his freckled face, Kinnock shook the water off his second-best suit and observed that "the damn tide came...
...tide indeed had come in-and with unexpected swiftness-for the copper-haired Welshman, who became the youngest leader in the Labor Party's history. In his 13 years as a Member of Parliament, Kinnock, 41, a leftist with a pragmatic streak, has never served in a government post. Thus it was a measure of the demoralized Labor Party's desperate need for a new image, energy and, above all, unity that led it to choose overwhelmingly on the first ballot a candidate untested in the national arena...
...leaders. But the party's archaic and ingrained internal structure rules out any real moderation. Two-fifths of the votes come from the unions which have repeatedly shown themselves to be unrealistic and irrational--some say they seek the destruction of the current political system. The fiery Neil Kinnock, whose name is being tossed about as a possible successor to Foot, has shown himself to be likeable and coherent but somewhat radical and bereft of a program...
...Britain's liveliest political figures, was deemed out of the race because of his age. Also benched was Tony Benn, 58, longtime archangel of Labor's radical left, who lost his seat in Parliament in the election. Last week's front runner was Neil Kinnock, 41, a staunch leftist whose Welsh charm has won him friends throughout the party and substantial support from the trade unions. On the moderate side, the leading contender was Roy Hattersley, 50, Home Secretary in Labor's outgoing shadow cabinet. Hattersley, unlike Kinnock, was at odds with Labor's controversial...
...After deliberating for nearly five hours at London's Old Bailey courthouse, a jury of nine men and three women found the British publisher of the book, titled Inside Linda Lovelace, innocent of obscenity charges. Linda declared herself "ecstatic," but others were less pleased. Groused Labor M.P. Neil Kinnock, when told that court costs would be paid out of public funds: "The taxpayer has just contributed ?20,000 to the promotion of a soft-porn book because of our stupid obscenity laws...