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...Washington, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater denounced the policy as "unacceptable until conditions in Viet Nam improve." In London, opposition Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock assailed the move as a "shameful episode," accusing Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of acting ! "tyrannically." Thatcher denounced Kinnock's criticism as "feeble and nonsense" and, in a swipe at the U.S., noted acidly that "those countries protesting about repatriation would do far better to take some of the boat people themselves." While the U.S., Canada, Australia and France have all taken many boat people in the past, none have offered shelter to those now facing...
...United Kingdom, where thedominant Conservative and Labour parties oftenshut out groups with broader-based support, PR isalso a controversial topic...
...general election, for example, analliance between the Liberal Party and the SocialDemocratic Party (SDP) received 25 percent of thevote nationwide but only 23 seats in Parliament.The minority Labour party won more than 250 seatswith 27 percent of the vote...
...bureaucrat who serves at the pleasure of a dozen bosses, Delors can be short-tempered and occasionally imperious. During one memorable speech last year, he accused a British representative on the 16-member European Commission of being "a lackey of the Labour Party" and referred indelicately to West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl as "fat-assed." His blithe contention that eventually E.C. officials would preside over 80% of the national economic and social decision making now conducted by individual countries infuriated Britain's Margaret Thatcher. So does his next major goal: replacing each nation's currency with a unified European monetary...
Addressing the House of Commons that evening, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain tried to equivocate. He said that if the Germans did not stop their invasion, Britain would "be bound to take action." The House was furious at Chamberlain's delays, and when Arthur Greenwood rose to reply for Labour, Tory backbencher Robert Boothby called out, "You speak for Britain." Said Greenwood: "I wonder how long we are prepared to vacillate at a time when Britain and all that Britain stands for, and human civilization, are in peril...