Word: owen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...being Western Europe's "fastest-growing economy." The previous day, Britain's third political force, the Social Democratic-Liberal Party Alliance, had outlined a more subdued picture, acknowledging Thatcher's economic achievements but judging their social and human costs to be intolerable. Their program, said S.D.P. Leader David Owen, was the "achievable dream...
...through public works programs. Kinnock also stood by his party's unilateral nuclear-disarmamen t position -- even though it remains an electoral liability. The Tories charged that Labor "would abandon the defense policy followed by every British government, Labor or Conservative, since World War II." Said Social Democratic Leader Owen: "On defense, Labor remains a menace to its allies and the answer to the Russians' prayer...
...Robert Owen, at the time a private citizen volunteering his services to North, made a trip to Costa Rica in 1985 to select a site for an airfield from which arms could be flown to the contras. He testified that he was met and shown around by a CIA agent who helped him choose the location. The CIA was barred at the time from such activities...
...February 1986 Owen made two more trips to Costa Rica. Owen by then had a $50,000 contract from the State Department to help in the delivery of "humanitarian" aid to the contras, which was permitted at the time. But he testified that on one trip he also helped deliver "lethal equipment" to the rebels, which was still banned...
...week's end the Conservatives, who had worried about voter complacency and expected to lose hundreds of seats had actually gained 75. The Labor Party was the big loser, dropping 227 seats. The Alliance, the moderate coalition of David Steel's Liberals and David Owen's Social Democrats, gained a hefty 453 seats. The bottom line, according to British Broadcasting Corporation projections: in a general election the Tories would win 340 seats in the House of Commons, Labor 259 and the Alliance 31, with 21 scattered among other parties. "It was a good evening for the Tories," acknowledged Owen...