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...S.D.P. won only six seats in the election but in an alliance with the Liberals attracted 26% of the vote. Jenkins received poor reviews as a campaigner, while Deputy Leader David Owen, 44, who served as Foreign Secretary during the government of Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan, emerged as articulate and energetic. Jenkins could have stayed on, but he graciously stepped aside and allowed Owen to take charge...
Challenged to clarify the difference, Foot and Healey produced a tortured compromise statement marked with internal contradictions. No sooner had it been cobbled together than it was upset by former Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan, who blasted the notion of unilateral nuclear disarmament. Polaris missiles, he declared, have "a life span of ten to twelve years as effective deterrents . . . and we should not give them up unilaterally." That sent a jolt through the party, and at week's end the continuing differences were so obvious that Foot was reluctant to answer questions on the issue...
...meeting in Guadeloupe in January 1979, Carter, Schmidt, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and British Prime Minister James Callaghan examined ways in which to respond to the new Soviet weapons. Carter reportedly proposed to offset the SS-20s by deploying U.S. Pershing II and ground-launched cruise missiles in Western Europe. Giscard and Callaghan backed the idea, but Schmidt, who by then deeply mistrusted Carter, was at first skeptical. Giscard has told TIME that it was he who proposed the formula that ultimately won Schmidt's approval: a simultaneous U.S. offer to open negotiations with the Soviet...
...Thatcher. In a brief preview of this week's full debate on the report, cries of "Whitewash!" were heard when Prime Minister Thatcher read the Franks report's exculpation of her government. Said she: "We now have no option but Fortress Falklands." Former Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan charged that Thatcher had bought "a short-term military victory and a long-term political retreat and dead end." The report, he later insisted, let the Prime Minister off "too lightly...
Under Andropov, the Politburo will be on its guard against any attempt by Washington to take advantage of uncertainty at the top in Moscow. Says former British Prime Minister James Callaghan: "This is a time for caution in the West and particularly in Washington. We must be moderate in our language and discard counterproductive rhetoric...