Twenty-nine voters would have been enough to get him the job. It was typical of Muskie that when he found he had only 24 immediate supporters, instead of trying to win more of his colleagues over by a public bid for the job, he quietly accepted defeat.After Jimmy Carter was defeated by Ronald Reagan in [...]

Most single mothers are destined to life in the worst flats in the worst estates, without child care or a chance to work, their children’s chances blighted from the start. (It is odd how the Government focuses on the inadequacies of single mothers when fathers are the ones who cause most of the trouble in [...]

Cruises had a strong year, rising from pounds 100.1m to pounds 110.7m and, but for the one-off cost of the division’s Star Princess liner being grounded, profits would have risen by more than 20 per cent.At the heart of P&O’s presentation to shareholders was a cash flow projection that Lord Sterling claimed would secure the [...]

They do not cover much of the crime people experience in their homes or on the streets, much of which goes unreported. Vehicle crime, on official definitions, is down; so is burglary. Yet most people are unlikely to say they feel safer than they did three years ago. Worse, in 1995 there were more homicides [...]

Washington – Edmund Muskie, former Secretary of State under President Carter, died yesterday at 81 after a heart attack. He was briefly a contender for the presidential nomination in 1972 Reuter
Obituary, page 16. TERESA POOLE
Taipei
In central Taipei yesterday afternoon workmen were clinging perilously to the side of the Chinese Bank building, [...]

After all, US institutions are not renowned for appreciating or supporting UK pubs. Indeed several of the pub buy-out schemes, put into place after the Government’s ill-fated Beer Orders forced the big brewers to sell many of their pubs, were abandoned when promised US support was withdrawn once top management got involved.Yet Wetherspoon, selling at [...]