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...most controversial changes involve the National Health Service, the state-financed system that employs about 1 million workers and treats 30 million patients a year. Thatcher's plan, which must still be approved by Parliament, allows the best-managed of the nation's 2,000 state-run hospitals to form self-governing trusts that can hire outside staff, pay higher wages to . doctors and negotiate salaries for nursing personnel. The plan encourage doctors to shop around for the best prices on hospital services, and permits them to refer patients to hospitals outside their district...
...Thatcher government, showing its determination to push ahead with the medical-service reforms, will issue eight working papers in the next two weeks. The resulting legislation will be submitted to Parliament, where its chances of passing are considered good. As for the legal reforms, a bill is expected to be ready by this fall. Despite the barristers' all-out campaign to block the changes, there is a widespread feeling that their monopoly is nearing...
West Germany's Bundestag is normally an orderly parliament, courtly in its procedures and respectful of its leaders. But last week the Bundestag convened in an unaccustomed turmoil of accusation and recrimination over West Germany's role in building Libya's suspected chemical-weapons plant at Rabta. Members shouted angry questions at a government spokesman, to the visible discomfort of a dour and silent Chancellor Helmut Kohl. "Once again our history has caught up with us," said Norbert Gansel, arms-control spokesman for the opposition Social Democratic Party, referring to the country's Nazi heritage. "Once again the evil, blinkered...
While others in the East bloc have been talking about democratization, Hungary has been doing it. Last week, with the blessing of Communist Party leader Karoly Grosz, the parliament passed new laws giving Hungarians the right to form independent political parties and participate in public demonstrations. The legislature also agreed to enact a further measure needed to enfranchise the parties by Aug. 1, giving them ample time to prepare for next year's legislative elections...
...directly implicated, his approval rating plunged in December to less than 30%, the lowest level in his 14 months in office. The scandal seemed to magnify public displeasure with Takeshita's sweeping tax-reform bill, including a 3% national consumption tax, which he pushed through the Diet, Japan's parliament, in December...