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Applause "isn't a direct comment on the lecture," says North House sophomore Peter Keane. But he adds. "If it's been a dry lecture nothing against the professor the class is just in a dry mood." Last year he recalls Professor of Astronomy Owen Gingerich jet-propelled himself out of the room after a Science A-17 lecture. "You get a kick out of that...
There was little ideological difference between Jenkins and his rival, former La bor Foreign Secretary David Owen...
...Owen's star rose during the Falklands war, when he patriotically backed the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - but only up to a point. Alluding frequently to his experience as Foreign Secretary, he rarely failed to mention that he had averted an Argentine threat to invade the Falklands...
Jenkins, by contrast, rarely spoke up. According to a recent poll, the public considered Owen intelligent, businesslike, fair and honest. Jenkins was seen as being smug, arrogant and out of touch...
...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...