Word: owen
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There was little ideological difference between Jenkins and his rival, former La bor Foreign Secretary David Owen...
...sure, Thatcher had her critics among opposition politicians who called for a last try at a 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...
FAIRBANK CAREFULLY describes the circle of China hands which emerged in the first half of this century. Portraits of Owen Lattimore. Agnes Smedley. Harold Isaacs and other key members of the Western experience in China preceding Mao consume much of Chinabound, shedding light on the personalities and politics of those who communicated what they saw or thought they saw. He chronicles the Harvard Faculty and History department with equal enthusiasm. While he fails to mention the awe his colleagues surely felt toward him and his Herculean creation of East Asian history courses which would eventually multiply and spread. Fairbank exudes...
...forward the heretical proposition that Britain needed a new party of the center, occupying the middle ground between Labor and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's right-leaning Conservative government. Home again last year, he joined other like-minded Laborites, including former Foreign Secretary David Owen and onetime Education Secretary Shirley Williams, to form the new Social Democratic Party...
...sailing team coasted to a third place finish at the Coast Guard Academy yesterday in the race for the Owen Trophy. King's Point finished first and Boston University was second, Harvard's Brian Keane led the Crimson with a third-place finish in the "A" division...