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...Irish government unraveled today over a controversial appointment that caused key members of the ruling coalition to announce their lack of support in Prime Minister Albert Reynolds. Deputy Prime Minister Dick Spring, who heads the Labour Party, announced his resignation and that of five cabinet officials today, adding: "Neither I nor any of my colleagues can vote confidence in this government." Without Spring's support, Reynolds' government stands to lose a vote of no-confidence set for Thursday. The government's collapse follows Reynolds' appointment of the High Court president -- Harry Whelehan, who as Attorney General came under fire...
...smaller one, announced that they too would "cease all operational hostilities" effective midnight Oct. 13. The prospects of an end to 25 years of bloodshed seemed brighter. "It's a great day for the people of Northern Ireland," said John Hume, leader of Ulster's Social Democratic and Labour Party...
...Major accepted Deputy Minister Tim Smith's resignation, calling it "unavoidable." Smith and another government official, who maintains his innocence, are accused of taking money between 1987 and 1989 in exchange for attempting to aid the store's owner, Mohamed Al-Fayed. In the mode of refined British politicos, Labour leaders seized the moment, booing and jeering Major on the floor of the House of Commons...
...coed band," says drummer Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth, a pioneering male-and-female group. Coed bands usually avoid cartoonish, bombastic sexuality except to ridicule it. Their songs often seek to understand the differences between the genders, and they are often painfully self-critical. Lyrics to Frente!'s Labour of Love go, "I don't know how I bent/ What you said to what I believe you meant." Says N'Dea Davenport, singer-songwriter with the R.-and-B. band Brand New Heavies: "Especially when a song is dealing with relationships, it turns out much better when both sexes...
About 20 million Americans may be under the watchful and electronic eye of their employers, according to a survey by the International Labour Organization, a United Nations agency. Just over 40 percent of the 301 companies polled said they searched employee email; 28 percent said they looked at network mail and 15 percent said they eavesdrop on voice mail...