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...made millionaire as much for his views (she considers some of them dangerously socialistic, particularly his willingness to intervene in industrial policy) as for his flamboyant public personality. For her successor, Thatcher preferred one of two Cabinet ministers: Chancellor of the Exchequer John Major, 47, or Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, 60, both of whom, out of loyalty, could not declare themselves as candidates until the Prime Minister retired from the contest. She pulled out just in time for the two + ministers to beat the deadline of noon Thursday for entering the election. In a three-way race, Thatcher counted...
...European partners, even if basic Thatcherite reservations about giving up national sovereignty remained. But first, the party had to unite behind a new leader. "We must heal the wound quickly," said Alan Clark, junior Minister of Defense and a Thatcher supporter. Echoed Timothy Raison, a Tory M.P. and Hurd backer: "We simply must put all this rancor behind us and unite." A Thatcher admirer to the last, Hurd nevertheless called for an end to her confrontational style of politics. "We must practice persuasion rather than assertion," he said...
With the Desert Shield coalition so subject to upheaval, patience in the gulf waiting game is wearing thin. In a BBC interview last week, British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd said the anti-Saddam forces would need to decide "in a matter of weeks" whether the economic sanctions against Iraq were sufficient or whether to prepare to go to war to liberate Kuwait...
...Joseph K. Hurd '91, an East Asian Studies and Government concentrator, on why he takes Japanese language courses
While the aforementioned try was not expected or even typical of Harvard's style of play against a bigger, better scrumming team such as Maryland, it proved the Crimson's dominance.Outweighed by an average of 20 pounds, Harvard'sforcing of the scrum into Maryland's end zone forJason Hurd's aptly-named score was sweetrecompense for last year's match...