Word: callaghans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shoot-from-the-hip Wyatt Earp (TIME, Dec. 1), some Moynihan supporters heard Kissinger's voice behind it. New York Times Columnist William Safire (who has been conducting a long vendetta-against Kissinger) speculated that Kissinger had planted the idea with Britain's Foreign Secretary James Callaghan during last month's economic summit talks in Rambouillet, France. Though the British later told Moynihan that Richard's views were "official" - endorsed by his government in London - participants in the Rambouillet talks deny any connivance. As one of them told TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter: "I was sitting...
Death Throes. While the anti-Spanish street demonstrations were clearly the handiwork of left-wing groups, a much broader spectrum was represented by the astonishing number of political leaders who damned the Spanish regime with rhetoric usually reserved for wartime enemies. Britain's Foreign Secretary, James Callaghan, almost joyfully asserted that the Franco government was in its death throes, and Italian Christian Democrat Paolo Cabras branded the regime "a continuing curse against all free men." Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme described the Madrid government as so many "satanic murderers"; Reiulf Steen, chairman of Norway's ruling Labor Party...
Alert the Army! Berserk with anger, Big Daddy declared that Hills would be shot on July 4, unless British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan visits Uganda in the meantime. Trembling, Amin shouted to his defense council, "Alert the army! Alert the air force! Call Libya [an ally whose leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, is a fellow Moslem and fellow eccentric] and tell her to start sending airplanes here!" Later, complaining that Blair had been "undiplomatic, hot-tempered and totally drunk" during the talks, Amin charged that the envoy had threatened to order "British troops from Kenya" to invade Uganda, and that Britain...
London immediately refuted the charges, pointing out that it had only 38 servicemen in Kenya and no combat troops whatever on the two vessels that were making routine calls at Mombasa. In the House of Commons, Callaghan declared firmly that he would be willling to go to Kampala for discussions but not under duress. "It is utterly wrong," he said, "that a man's life should be bartered against political conditions...
Olive Branch. London took some hope from a five-page telegram that Amin fired off to the Queen later in the week. Nostalgically recalling his 1971 visit to Britain, Amin wrote that he was still ready to receive Callaghan. Seizing on what seemed to be a tentative olive branch, Prime Minister Harold Wilson replied that Callaghan would go to Uganda for talks about "the whole range of political, economic, cultural and technical problems"-as soon as Hills' death sentence had been revoked...