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Still, some believe race relations in Britain are not as bad as they are on the Continent. "There, blacks are seen as second-class citizens with few rights or none at all," says Bernie Grant, one of four black Labour Members of Parliament. "In Britain, most black people are citizens." And they can muster some political weight. More than 500 elected members of local city and town councils are black. Nevertheless, the tabloids keep whipping up their working-class readers with improbable tales of immigrants living in luxury at taxpayer expense. In fact, says David Dibosa of the Greater London...
...scandal transfixed Britain throughout the week. In a bruising dustup in Parliament, Neil Kinnock, leader of the opposition Labour Party, called Major "utterly negligent" for failing to take action against B.C.C.I. while serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer in January 1990. Replied an ashen-faced Major, who said he had learned of the full extent of the bank fraud only on June 28: "If you are saying I am a liar, you had better say so bluntly." Robin Leigh-Pemberton, governor of the Bank of England, later affirmed that Major first received details of the scandal in late June...
...waves from the B.C.C.I. shutdown rippled across the globe. Authorities seized more than 75% of the bank's $20 billion of assets in 69 countries. Customers from Bahrain to Beijing suddenly found themselves cut off from their funds. Political sniping broke out in Britain when members of the opposition Labour Party attacked regulators for hastily closing 25 branches of B.C.C.I. across the country. Panama pleaded with the Bank of England to return $18 million of government funds that ousted dictator Manuel Noriega had squirreled away in B.C.C.I. accounts in Britain. In the African republic of Botswana, officials kept the local...
...proposal is almost certain to be approved by the House of Commons when it is submitted for a vote in the fall. But not without plenty of bellyaching from the opposition. Labour leader Neil Kinnock calls the plan "son of poll tax." His party favors tax rates that would take into account household income as well as property values...
With a marine biologist mother, agricultural scientist father and relatives who variously helped create the British Labour Party and served in the French Resistance, how could Catherine Wallace of New Zealand turn out to be anything but an ecological crusader? She got the call to action 12 years ago, when she learned that a mining company had obtained exploration rights from the government for the forest lands on her family's sheep ranch on the North Island's rugged Coromandel peninsula and was about to excavate. "I thought this was outrageous and unjust," recalls Wallace, now 39 and a lecturer...