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Damage control at start of Labour Party Conference in Britain
By Julie Hyland, 30 September 1998
Even before the British Labour Party's annual conference began on Sunday, Prime Minister Tony Blair needed to mount a damage limitation exercise. Four of six seats on Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC), opened for election by the party's new constituency section, had been won by members of the
Gillette to slash 4,700 jobs
30 September 1998
Labour Government set to ration healthcare
By Jean Shaul, 30 September 1998
The Blair Labour Government has seized on the launch of so-called
Letters from readers on the Starr investigation
30 September 1998
New Zealand officially in recession
By a correspondent, 30 September 1998
New Zealand, a country held up around the world in the 1980s and early 1990s as a model of
Seven days in January--A chronology of Kenneth Starr's coup
By Editorial Board, 30 September 1998
"By thinking in images the artist cognizes the world in order to change it"
29 September 1998
A change of power in Bonn
By Peter Schwarz, 29 September 1998
Biggest ever Japanese bankruptcy
By Nick Beams, 29 September 1998
Japanese Leasing, a non-bank affiliate of the failed Long Term Credit Bank, has announced that it is filing for bankruptcy with liabilities of 2.2 trillion yen or more than $16 billion. Two other affiliates of the LTCB are expected to suffer the same fate.
Blair government tells poor to fend for themselves
By Robert Stevens, 29 September 1998
The Blair government's Social Exclusion Unit (SEU) report, Bringing Britain together: a national strategy for neighbourhood renewal, was touted as the beginning of a programme to eradicate poverty in Britain in a