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...Protestant banker and a former political cartoonist for the Irish Times. She took on cases of sexual and employment disadvantage to women. She fought for legalizing birth control and divorce (or "the divorce," as it is known locally). For years she was active in the Labour Party, serving 20 years in the Senate, but her two attempts to run for the more powerful Dail, the lower house of Parliament, ended in defeat. She finally broke with the party because she thought it was intransigent on the Northern Ireland question. A reunified island is perhaps her ultimate goal. In addition...
...sense of humor well under wraps. Her goals were serious. "She worked in the belief that legal change could provide for social change. In her Senate record and the cases she undertook, she was always there for the hard stuff," says John Rogers, a former Attorney General and Labour Party stalwart...
...took a springy leap of the imagination on the part of Rogers and other Labour masterminds to see their former member as President. But Labour was tired of its minor role in politics. Says Rogers: "The idea was to get a woman of such quality -- her strength challenged the status...
...during this time that Brundtland beganher political and social activism. She led a presscampaign against opponents of abortion in theearly 1970s, pushing her into public view as awoman leader, as well as an active Labour members...
...once again Britain refused to follow the European Community's lead. The recession was as bad there as it was on the Continent, and British voters were just as disgruntled. Even so, at the end of a four-week election campaign, they still found the Labour Party and its leader Neil Kinnock unconvincing. They stuck with the Conservative Party of Prime Minister John Major, giving it a majority of 21 seats in the 651-seat House of Commons. The Conservatives took 41.9% of the popular vote, a slight decrease from the 42.3% they won in 1987, when Margaret Thatcher last...