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Jenkins' strong opposition came not only from the two major parties but from the Scottish Nationalists, who favor outright independence and usually command 10% to 15% of the vote in the district. Bordering the University of Glasgow, Hillhead is the best-educated constituency in Scotland, a community that stretches from handsome, rosy sandstone houses on sloping streets to grubby shops near the River Clyde below. The Tories came in with an edge, possession of the seat for more than six decades, the past 33 years served rather lacklusterly by Sir Thomas Galbraith, who died last January. In his stead...
...campaign speeches as time went on. He pledged that he would spend "the rest of my political life" representing Hillhead, and that he would not dash away to a safer English constituency at the first chance to move south. He supported the granting of greater autonomy for Scotland, including the formation of a regional assembly with authority to tax and with substantial legislative power. Jenkins pledged his firm support of Britain's membership in NATO and the European Community. He opposed the unilateral disarmament movement that has been waging a spirited battle against the introduction...
...often as possible "for a bit of peace." On Sundays the parents of Belfast can put the city at their backs for a while and drive south to the Mournes, where the hill sheep flock like gulls, or north to the coast of Antrim, to stare across at Scotland. You don't see much of the army in the countryside, except around the Maze; and even that place, 13 miles from town, is partly hidden from view by a pasture and a golf course. Otherwise it is all peace and greenery: swans preening on the lake shores; hedges that make...
Looking like a sitcom family returning from a vacation in the country, Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, Princess Anne and Diana, Princess of Wales, deplaned over the holidays at London's Heathrow Airport. The royal quartet, fresh from an outing in Scotland, grappled with a variety of hassles: driving wind, snowy tarmac, bulky luggage. And lots of dogs. There was Prince Charles' retriever Harvey, who couldn't wait to get off the plane. He bounded down the gangway, dragging Charles behind like a tin can. Then there was Anne's retriever. He took one look...
...play to two audiences. "I never expected to be a tremendous hit in England," he says, "but I hope the people will give it a chance to settle in." But three regional television companies have given the ego a beating by dropping the show. Said a spokesman for Central Scotland television: "Our audience didn't like it, and more important, didn't understand it. Seventy percent of the jokes mean Sweet Fanny Adams to us up here...