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...still the party's second worst in more than a half-century. The most disappointed loser was the Liberal-Social Democratic Alliance, which had become a third force in British politics in its six years of existence. Led by the Liberals' David Steel and the Social Democrats' David Owen, the Alliance had aimed to eclipse Labor as the main opposition party. Instead, its representation in the House was reduced to 22 seats from the 23 it won in the previous election. The vote was a landmark in one respect: three blacks and an Indian, all Labor candidates, became the first...
With the race focusing increasingly on the Tories and Labor, the Alliance was struggling. Its leaders, Liberal David Steel and Social Democrat David Owen, still hoped to hold the balance of power in a "hung" Parliament in which neither of their two rivals had an outright majority, but that possibility receded as their campaign failed to ignite. Steel and Owen added to their problems by disagreeing over possible participation in a coalition government. Steel called it "unimaginable" to support the Tories, while Owen wanted to keep all options open. They patched up the split, but Thatcher and Kinnock dismissed...
...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...
...North told Congress last June, under oath, that he barely knew Owen. In fact, as Owen's testimony to the congressional Iran-contra investigators establishes, the two had been working together closely for two years. At the end of his testimony, Owen read a paean canonizing his mentor. Sample line: ". . . at crude altars in the jungle, candles burn...