Word: hattersley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...negotiated settlement. Abandoning negotiations, warned Social Democrat M.P. David Owen, the Foreign Secretary in the last Labor government, would mean "abandoning the U.N. charter, Britain's friends and allies, and, even more important, Britain's moral authority on the issue." Senior Labor M.P. Roy Hattersley predicted "a permanent state of siege" in the Falklands and disclosed that "all sensible people know there has to be some accommodation with the Argentines...
...British naval headquarters for news of the fate of their loved ones. Special telephone lines installed to pass on information to next of kin were jammed with calls. In the destroyer's namesake city, Union Jacks were lowered to half-mast. Sheffield's Lord Mayor Enid Hattersley was on the verge of tears as she asked mournfully, "What is worth losing young lives for? One is too many." The re-action of most Britons was summed up by a Portsmouth man, who said he "had thought we might lose some because of the weather in the South Atlantic...
...reckoned with in British politics. Margaret Thatcher, who watched the results on TV in her private quarters at 10 Downing Street, had every reason to pay close attention to the victor. Some newspapers described Williams as the probable successor to the Prime Minister. As Labor M.P. Roy Hattersley put it: "Acknowledging Mrs. Williams' extraordinary ability to walk spotless through the minefield of party politics requires neither graciousness nor chivalry. It is a simple fact...
Last week Shadow Cabinet Home Secretary Roy Hattersley, Healey's chief strategist, warned that the left's attempt to take control of the party manifesto "will alienate millions of our supporters, tearing the party into tatters and denying us the electoral victory the country needs." Noted the London Observer: "A fundamental battle about the nature of the Labor movement is now joined, with not only its policies but its whole direction within the body politic at issue...
...several party elders, including Foot, Deputy Leader Denis Healey and Shadow Home Secretary Roy Hattersley, are committed to reversing the Wembley ruling...