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...London since 1972. But the hope is that the talks will eventually lead to a permanent end to the conflict, and the improving prosperity of the Catholics should help. "People want an end to all the killings," said Seamus Mallon, a leader of the liberal Social Democratic and Labour Party. Protestant extremists and the Irish Republican Army, whose political wing, Sinn Fein, was denied a seat at the talks, are expected to respond with a new wave of violence...
...levy, introduced over the past two years, replaced property taxes as a source of funding for local government. It was intended to make high-spending local councils, mostly Labour-controlled, accountable to the public by ensuring that every adult, not just property owners, paid directly for local services. But the tax bore no relation to ability to pay; within a locality every adult was charged the same amount, although millions of poor people got rebates. Resentment boiled over into a major riot in Trafalgar Square...
Since Major took over, the Tories have pulled from a deep deficit in the opinion polls to a 4-point lead over Labour. Even if Major wins, however, he would remain under the eye of a formidable presence. Thatcher has been grumbling lately that she was unseated as a result of a plot, a suspicion for which others can find no evidence. Last week she became president of a new group, Conservative Way Forward, dedicated to pushing Thatcherite policies; it will blow the whistle on any backsliding. Even out of power, this lady is not for turning...
...renowned for a blend of macho charm and armored-tank aggressiveness. A British union leader once ruefully observed, "He could charm the birds out of the trees, then shoot them." Although decorated by British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery for World War II valor and elected in 1964 as a Labour Member of Parliament, Maxwell was involved in a corporate takeover battle that led Britain's Department of Trade and Industry to conclude in 1971 that he could not "be relied on to exercise proper stewardship of a publicly quoted company." The rebuff hardly stopped him: his empire embraces more than...
Britain remains outwardly the most committed European member of the coalition. In mid-November a poll for the Times of London showed 62% of those surveyed backing the use of U.S. and British troops against Iraq if Saddam Hussein refuses to leave Kuwait. Even the opposition Labour Party has consistently backed the government's gulf policy. However, in spite of current levels of support, pollsters believe public approval will decline dramatically as casualties mount...