Word: mp
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Margaret Thatcher's achievement in becoming Britain's first woman Prime Minister is writ large with irony. Thursday's general election brought no cheer to feminists: Britain's only avowed lesbian MP lost her seat, as did Labour's most important woman politician, popular cabinet minister Shirley Williams. The new House of Commons contains the smallest contingent of women since 1950. As for Mrs. Thatcher herself, some regard her views on the role of women in society as being just about on a par with the Ayatollah Khomeini...
...college." For Lance Corporal Genest, joining the Marines has been a means of "avoiding growing up, getting married, having kids and living down the street in my small Oregon home town from everyone else. I also wanted some adventure." And for Mary Jo Kinney, attending the Army's MP school at Fort McClellan is a way to learn a trade. Says she: "I want to be a policewoman. In three years, I can get out of here and get a law enforcement...
...office, she can overhear the complaints brought in to the outside orderly room. "I drank Brasso," one frightened recruit whimpers. While the sergeant first class calls the base hospital, Stratton mutters, "He didn't drink Brasso. He's just trying to get discharged." Later an MP walks in with an 18-year-old AWOL soldier, who tries to explain that he was worried about his wife. "He's going to get 14 days' extra duty and 14 days' restrictions," remarks Stratton in the inside office, while the downcast recruit waits outside. "He's essentially...
...former cops; one was a former FBI agent. The killer showed he was familiar with police work in his note to Breslin; he also fires his .44 in the police-approved two-handed, legs-apart crouch. "We're dealing with someone with training, a policeman, a former MP, an FBI agent," insists one veteran detective. Ironically, as the killings continue, the clearing of suspects gets easier. Anyone being followed in one place at the time of a shooting elsewhere or who can prove that he was not at any of the murder scenes at the fatal hour...
...defeat on such an important question, while it did not constitutionally require the government to resign, immediately called into question its future existence. Wilson cancelled his birthday party Friday and made the Labour leftists see the light. Although it had to resort to the expedient of bringing in MP's on stretchers, the Wilson government won in a replay of the budget battle and assured its short term survival. In the course of the debate, Healy had morally offended many of the hard core leftists, known as the Tribune group and the incident left Wilson's position shaky...