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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even some disinterested observers have qualms about the tribunal. "This kind of thing is a mockery of the judicial process," says Quintin Hogg, Lord Hailsham, former Lord High Chancellor of Britain. "It is substituting trial by media for trial by courts." Simon Wiesenthal, the renowned Nazi hunter, also opposes the mock trial. "As soon as the international historians' commission had published its findings," he says, "the case should have become an affair for the Austrian voters only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: A TV Trial for Waldheim | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...father, a popular public housing inspector. Ryan, who drifted through a number of laborer jobs and was once employed in a gun shop, appeared to have had licenses for his personal arsenal. British officials immediately said they would review the country's gun-licensing laws. Said Douglas Hogg, Under Secretary of State at the Home Office: "Obviously, there are lessons to be learned from this incident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Wednesday, Bloody Wednesday | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

...author of "What's in a Name?" (ESSAY, Aug. 18) should not play footloose with the truth. "The famous Miss Hogg" was named Ima by her father not out of cruelty but in honor of his deceased brother, who had earlier published an epic poem of the Civil War, The Fate of Marvin. The heroine was Ima, a paragon of womanhood, equally disposed to nurse the wounded soldiers of North and South. Miss Hogg did not "grow up scowling" but was a good-humored woman of gracious mien and poise, who because of her untiring benefactions to the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas Lady | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

Some names have a special kind of imprint. The famous Miss Hogg, whose father cruelly named her Ima, had good reason to grow up scowling, but maybe she would have even if she had been named something sweet, like Charlotte. Anyone named James Oliver Buswell IV carries his parents' announcement of a certain view of the child's place in the world, but the effect of such a view probably differs considerably from one person to another. Someone with a name like Otto inevitably knows the burdens of an ethnic heritage, but so, presumably, do Madonna Ciccone and Fernando Valenzuela...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: What's in a Name? | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

...debate and its 1933 counterpart. The Oxford Union's treasurer back then was Labor Party Leader Michael Foot, who did not speak on that famous first occasion but today advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament for Britain. One of the featured speakers last week was Member of Parliament Douglas Hogg, who, like his father before him, argued the case for fighting. Another was Historian Max Beloff, 69, who as an Oxford undergraduate 50 years ago supported the pacifist line. This time Beloff, a lord, was on the other side. Said he: "Those of us who voted for the first motion have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Oxford Atones | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

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