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...Greater London Council. Livingstone turned the council, responsible for such matters as public transit, garbage collection and social welfare projects, into the biggest-spending local government Britain had ever seen. He attracted headlines by doling out tax funds to every group imaginable, including a gay community center, a Welsh harp society, a graffiti workshop and an organization called Babies Against the Bomb. The council declared London a nuclear-free zone, earning plaudits from the Kremlin...
...Rika Welsh, director of community relations for American Cablesystems, added that television has had a negative impact on the functional literacy rate but that it has the potential to reverse the trend. "Television is not all bad and doesn't have to be the problem it has been...
...Frank Welsh, a writer, decided that the only way to settle the debate was to build a trireme. So he called upon Morrison, an expert on ancient Greek ships and a longtime supporter of the three-tier theory. Morrison brought in John Coates, retired chief naval architect to the British Ministry of Defense...
...speeches. He was criticized by radical leftists in the Labor Party for moving it too far toward the center. But his eloquent campaign attacks against Tory parsimony won him respect as a warm, compassionate leader. In one crowd-pleasing piece of oratory last week, he evoked the meter of Welsh Poet Dylan Thomas when he declared there were just four more days left of "hope-destroying, unemploying, care-cutting, factory-shutting, nation-splitting, poor-hitting, truth-mangling, freedom-strangling Toryism...
...seventh inning, the Tigers tallied twicebefore Welsh flew out to end the game with tworunners on base...