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Among U.S. allies in Europe, only Britain, which has consistently backed the U.S. in the Afghanistan crisis, expressed immediate support for Carter. With Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher nodding agreement, Deputy Foreign Secretary Sir Ian Gilmour declared in the House of Commons: "We and our American allies will use all possible measures to contain this [Soviet] threat." A West German Chancellery official complained that Carter's "warning about the Gulf states could have been made more subtly. A lower, very steady tone would be better than stridency." Many foreign diplomats in Washington agreed. Said a French diplomat who represents the Common...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carter Takes Charge | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

This is an important day for Rhodesia," declared a jubilant Sir Ian Gilmour, Britain's Deputy Foreign Secretary. "It means the end of the war." So it seemed. Moments earlier, Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, co-leaders of the Patriotic Front guerrilla alliance, had entered a gilded room in London's Foreign Office to add their signatures to a twelve-page protocol that had already been initialed by representatives of Britain and the now defunct Salisbury government of Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa. The document: a three-sided agreement for a complete cease-fire in Zimbabwe Rhodesia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZIMBABWE RHODESIA: We Are Going Home | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

After the neutron bomb uproar, Sir Ian Gilmour, defense spokesman in the Tory shadow government, lashed out: "There have been weeks of leaks and contradictions, and after an orgy of weakness and vacillation, the wrong decision has finally been reached. Mr. Carter has been scared off the neutron weapon by the Russian propaganda barrage. It now seems that the Kremlin has virtually a right of veto on weapons that NATO is allowed to deploy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter's Balance Sheet | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

While Lokev protested the officiating, referee Lloyd Gilmour penalized the Russian team two minutes for delay of game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flyers Trounce Angry Soviet Club | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...weaker this year, and Harvard may be stronger. The Terriers certrainly lost more through graduation, including forwards Jimmy Quinn, Mike Sobeski, and Fred "Bear" Bassi, a Crimson nemesis. Defensemen Pete McLachlan and Brian Gilmour formed one of the country's strongest and highest scoring defense duos, and goalie Wayne Ryan was one of the best...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Harvard, B.U. Machines to Collide on Ice | 12/6/1967 | See Source »

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