Word: owen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Astronomical Perspective," Owen J. Gingerich (full course...
...frosty response from the Thatcher administration. Gone will be the cosy rapport Carter shared with Jim Callaghan, who was very much an Atlanticist and who was even accused at times of being slavishly indulgent to U.S. interests. Gone too will be the close relationship with David Owen, Labour's outgoing Foreign Secretary, and his friend the British Ambassador to Washington, Peter Jay, who as Callaghan's son-in-law can expect his replacement to be one of the first acts of the Conservative government...
While the rhetoric soared, no member of Callaghan's Cabinet was running harder than David Owen, the young (40) Foreign Secretary who was a practicing physician before entering politics. His southern Africa policy, though closely attuned to the U.S.'s, has won him enemies in Britain. Owen does not hold a safe seat. He will lose his Plymouth constituency if only 3.2% of the vote swings to the Conservatives. Last week TIME Correspondent Art White got a close look at the Foreign Secretary's ups and downs as he tried to win the home front. Reports White...
Armed with campaign leaflets and a smile, Owen calls at one house and is greeted by Arthur Bannister, 70, a retired laborer. "Three cheers!" cries Bannister, a lifelong Labor Party man. "You're in. I back Labor and I'll never budge." Encouraged, Owen crosses the street and this time runs into a fervent working-class Tory. Robert Mason, 78, a retired stained-glass cutter, is ill with bronchitis, and Owen goes to his bedside. "You'd do better to go back to doctoring," Mason says. "I don't think Callaghan is any good for the country...
...dockside area, Owen is surrounded by fishermen who protest the expansion of a public toilet on the quay because it will rob the loading area of space. Owen promises to look into it, knowing full well that he is not gaining much ground with the men, most of whom normally vote Conservative. Still, he professes confidence. "As the campaign goes on," he insists, "more people will distrust the Tory line. We are closing...