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The 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...
More than a million Brazilians waited last week in the streets and plazas of Belo Horizonte, the state capital of Minas Gerais. After a solemn state funeral in Brasilia, Tancredo de Almeida Neves, Brazil's first civilian President-elect in 21 years, was returning in death to the region of...
In a funeral oration as Neves was buried on Wednesday in his hometown of Sao Joao del Rei, 140 miles north of Rio de Janeiro, President Sarney said, "His commitments will be our commitments. His dream will be our dream." The new leader is expected to benefit immediately from the...
The President's original proposal for a meeting was contained in a letter carried by George Bush to Konstantin Chernenko's funeral. The offer was meant to be private, but White House operatives, eager to have Reagan appear as the prince of peace, leaked it. Had the offer remained confidential...
The Bishop and his enormous flock were ready to agree when Botha, in a veiled reference to South Africa's political unrest, declared that "the forces of darkness must be kept out of the country." Later in the week some 35,000 blacks in the Eastern Cape region attended a...