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Washington expects mission to discuss issue
Signs measures carrying $18,000,000
Record low deficit of $53
Jury disagrees in trial of Pantano
1925Tony Benn, English pilot and politician, Secretary of State for Industry (died 2014)[†]
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn, known between 1960 and 1963 as The Viscount Stansgate, was a British Labour Party politician and political activist who served as a Cabinet minister in the 1960s and 1970s. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol South East and Chesterfield for 47 of the 51 years between 1950 and 2001. He later served as President of the Stop the War Coalition from 2001 to 2014.