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...every issue. Aside from staying in the European Community and keeping the missiles, the Tories vowed that they would not resort to inflationary spending to stimulate the economy and promised to return already nationalized firms (British Airways, British Telecom, Rolls-Royce) to the private sector. The Prime Minister took special delight in promising to reform the unions, her bitterest enemies and the lifeblood of the Labor Party (they provide 90% of its funds). The middle
...transforming the nation's economy and attitude toward work. She is fond of calling for a return to "Victorian values," by which she means the virtues of thrift and self-reliance, hard work and sense of duty. (In an inspired bit of parody, the liberal New Statesman illustrated a special issue on the subject with a photomontage of Thatcher as Queen Victoria.) As Peregrine Worsthorne, associate editor of the conservative Sunday Telegraph, puts it, Thatcher "is as ignorantly contemptuous of the so-called values of the idle rich as of the so-called idle poor...
TIME's reporters walked around the checkpoint and spoke to Dare villagers, who said they had been well aware of the Australian operations but had not seen any rebels. "We know the helicopters come and drop special forces in the hills," said one farmer who did not want to give his name. As we walked further into the area, two Australian soldiers wearing camouflage paint on their faces burst out of the bushes and ordered us at gunpoint to get down on the ground. One of the soldiers, corporal Simon Zapelli, said he was detaining us "for your own safety...
...they are pursuing spent the past two years under the leadership of rebel leader Major Alfredo Reinado, who was killed during what the government labeled an assassination attempt on Ramos-Horta. Under Reinado's leadership, the rebels were regularly hunted by the ISF's highly trained special forces but always managed to stay one step ahead of them...
...Supreme Court justice being dismissed by the president of the United States. Think of John Roberts being detained with his family as the chief justice of Pakistan has been detained with his family - [he has] three young children who are all going to school. One boy is a special child [i.e., developmentally disabled]. One is surprised that your top American officials are talking about Musharraf as if he is god's gift to America. It's sad and it is counterproductive. Would you suspend the U.S. constitution and then hold elections? So why is Pakistan any different...