Science In The News
Date: 29 March 1942
By WALDEMAR KAEMPFFERT
Waldemar KAEMPFFERT
Article in Nature on blood group and family name connections
Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock (born 28 March 1942) is a Welsh politician who was Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1970 to 1995, first for Bedwellty and then for Islwyn. He was Vice-President of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004. Kinnock was considered to be on the soft left of the Labour Party.
Born and raised in South Wales, Kinnock was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1970 general election. He became the Labour Party's shadow education minister after the Conservatives won power in the 1979 general election. After the party under Michael Foot suffered a landslide defeat to Margaret Thatcher in the 1983 election, Kinnock was elected Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition. During his tenure as leader, Kinnock proceeded to fight the party's left wing, especially the Militant tendency, and he opposed NUM leader Arthur Scargill's methods in the 1984–1985 miners' strike. He led the party during most of the Thatcher government, which included its third successive election defeat when Thatcher won the 1987 general election. Although Thatcher had won another landslide, Labour regained sufficient seats for Kinnock to remain Leader of the Opposition following the election.
Kinnock led the Labour Party to a surprise fourth consecutive defeat at the 1992 general election, despite the party being ahead of John Major's Conservative government in most opinion polls, which had predicted either a narrow Labour victory or a hung parliament. Shortly afterwards, he resigned as Leader of the Labour Party; he was succeeded in the ensuing leadership election by John Smith. He left the House of Commons in 1995 to become a European commissioner. He went on to become Vice-President of the European Commission under Romano Prodi from 1999 to 2004, before being elevated to the House of Lords as Baron Kinnock in 2005. Until the summer of 2009, he was also the chairman of the British Council and the president of Cardiff University.
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Date: 29 March 1942
By WALDEMAR KAEMPFFERT
Waldemar KAEMPFFERT
Article in Nature on blood group and family name connections
Date: 29 March 1942
Date: 29 March 1942
Date: 29 March 1942
By DR. GEORGE GALLUP Director, American Institute of Public Opinion
Article on U S pub opinion; illus
Date: 29 March 1942
By IVOR BROWNLONDON
Ivor BROWNLONDON
War workers entertainment discussed
Date: 29 March 1942
OFF pamphlet describes Ger propaganda methods; excerpts; illus
Date: 29 March 1942
By HERBERT W. HORWILLLONDON
Herbert HORWILLLONDON