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...decision drew howls from environmentalists, politicians and some local Orkney residents. Liberal M.P. Jo Grimond, who represents the islands at Westminster, called on Secretary of State for Scotland Bruce Millan to ask if the slaughter was really necessary. The U.N.-backed International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources added its own objection. In Edinburgh, anonymous protesters threw bricks through the glass storefronts of five companies selling hunting equipment...
Since then, the Liberals have lost much of their brief mid-1970s' flash and glitter, and another revival is not likely any time soon. Thorpe's interim replacement as party leader is Jo Grimond, 62, a veteran Liberal warhorse who headed the party from 1956 to 1967. His stewardship will be brief: plagued by increasing deafness, he is willing to serve only until midsummer, when a new Liberal leader will be selected in a process that may be bitter and divisive and could further postpone the new dawn that dapper Jeremy Thorpe once promised to bring the Liberals...
Most Britons tend to accept Wilson's explanation at face value. As the Liberal Party's elder statesman, Jo Grimond, put it: "He came to the end of what he could do." Indeed, attempts to find hidden motives for the resignation do not hold up. His health apparently was not a factor. He looked ruddy and vigorous last week, belying rumors that he has been plagued with various maladies. Nor is there any evidence that he felt he was losing his grip on the party, even though he was embarrassed and angered by the rebellion earlier this month...
...fellows are: Gloria B. Lubkin, senior editor of Physics Today; Michael A. Ruby, general editor of the business and finance section of Newsweek; Andres P. Drysdale, assistant to the editor of The Star of Johannesburg, South Africa; John J. Grimond, of the editorial staff of The Economist of London...
...Wilson cared less about Heath's reaction than about that of Liberal Leader Jo Grimond, whose nine votes in the House provide the extra margin Labor needs to operate comfortably. Since the Liberals are dead set against steel nationalization, Wilson's omission was calculated-and successful. Welcoming Wilson's steel retreat, Grimond exulted: "It is recognized in the speech that the government no longer stands for socialism...