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...suspension lasted only five days, and by last week Livingstone was back in the House, ready to continue declaiming, posturing and in general living up to his reputation as Parliament's most outrageous figure. Dubbed "Red Ken" by the London tabloids, Livingstone, 42, is famous for his unabashed support of leftist causes and for launching indecorous assaults on government officials. He is also, not coincidentally, a major pain in the aspirations of Labor Leader Neil Kinnock, who wants to broaden his party's appeal by staking out more moderate positions. When Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher won a third * five-year...
While Livingstone won wider support for slashing subway and bus fares, his policies infuriated many Britons. One of them was Thatcher, who pushed legislation through Parliament abolishing the council in 1986. Out of a job, Livingstone was elected to the House last year from Brent East, in northwest London. His fellow Labor M.P.s shunned him, but party rank and file later elected him to a seat on Labor's ruling council...
...paper currency until 1850. By the early 1900s, it was financing copper mining in the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) and the building of China's Peking- Hankow railway. With its headquarters in a stately turn-of-the-century building situated between the royal palace and the Belgian Parliament, La Generale today employs nearly 100,000 workers and holds interests in 1,261 firms, including the country's biggest banking, insurance, mining, trading and chemical concerns. Yet the company has grown unfocused and stagnant, depressing its profits and market value...
Denmark is about to become the first country in the world to grant homosexuals the legal status of married couples. A bill introduced in parliament last week provides that gay couples registering as "partners" will automatically gain the same rights to inheritance and tax deductions, the same access to social services and the same obligation to pay alimony as a husband and wife...
...conference followed a rigorous academic schedule, with seminars starting at 9 a.m. in the hall of the European Parliament," Shustorovich said. "People were free in the evening, but receptions usually continued until 1 a.m. People couldn't keep up with the work; there were 50 to 60 hours of seminars over a period of five days...