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...Conservative government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher unveiled plans last week for the most ambitious overhaul of Britain's $51 billion-a-year welfare program since the cradle-to-grave system was launched in 1948. Some 20 million people would be affected, whether through tightening of the qualifications for a once-only maternity grant, eliminating a state-financed pension fund or restricting the $38 payment for funeral expenses to poor families. Special aid for the needy, housing benefits and payments to unemployed youths would also be axed. The foundations, the National Health Service and the basic old-age-pension system...
...Thatcher maintains that Britain cannot afford its generous welfare structure. Said Neil Kinnock, leader of the opposition Labor Party: "It is a cheap and nasty strategy from a cheating, nasty government." When Thatcher declined in Parliament last week to estimate how much would be saved by the cutbacks, she was taunted by Kinnock: "Is she afraid, innumerate or simply mendacious?" Replied Thatcher: "No. Factual...
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announced her own plans to curb soccer violence. She said she will introduce legislation to outlaw the sale or possession of alcohol in soccer stadiums and on trains and buses that carry fans to games. In Liverpool last week police were examining videotapes of the tragic Brussels game to identify rioters who may face extradition to Belgium. A Liverpool delegation will also visit Turin next week in an attempt at reconciliation with a city where anti-British feeling has been intense in recent days...
Prime Minister Thatcher responded to the violence in Brussels by summoning a number of her country's football officials to confer with her on the problem of fan violence. She announced that Britain would be contributing $317,500 to a special fund for victims of the riot and families of the dead. Last March, Thatcher set up a panel that included members of her cabinet to study soccer violence after fans went on a rampage in Luton, England. The Prime Minister said last week that she will now meet sooner than planned with the group to review progress on implementing...
DIED. Roy Plomley, 71, cheery host for 40 years of the BBC's weekly Desert Island Discs, a radio program famous for attracting such celebrities as Princess Margaret and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for intimate, homey chats; of a heart attack; in London. Plomley's formula was unvarying: he asked each of his 1,791 guests to select eight recordings, one book and one luxury for an indefinite stay on a desert island. Princess Margaret's picks included Rule Britannia; Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer; and Sixteen Tons sung by Tennessee Ernie Ford...