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News gradually reached Britain that oil was still flowing into Rhodesia, and hopes for the success of sanctions gave way to dismay. As Lord Thomson (then Commonwealth Secretary and chairman of an informal Cabinet committee charged with handling the Rhodesia problem) told the Bingham inquiry, "We came increasingly to the conclusion that we couldn't bring the Rhodesian government to an end by sanctions unless we were prepared to apply them to South Africa. We were under no circumstances willing to do that. The best we could make of a bad job was to be in a position...
Officials of the oil companies had worked out just such a solution. The French oil group TOTAL would supply Rhodesia through Mozambique, while BP and Shell would service TOTAL'S customers in South Africa. Lord Thomson Insists that he gave a "full account" of these arrangements in writing to Prime Minister Harold Wilson. The former P.M. now acknowledges a report from Thomson, but "not in the terms which have been suggested." Concludes the Bingham Report ambiguously: "The details of the TOTAL agreement were communicated to Her Majesty's government...
Tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States may be resolved in "an unpeaceful or unpleasant major confrontation sometime in the 1980s," Samuel P. Huntington, Thomson Professor of Government and director of the Center for International Affairs, said yesterday...
...gotta field questions in there like a president," Spaceman Bill Lee said, holding a copy of "National Geographic." "Trouble is," Lee said," he looks more like Meldrim Thomson...
Fifteen demonstrators, many of them members of the Spartacus Youth League (SYL), marched in front of Sever Hall from 9:45 to 10:15 a.m. yesterday protesting the return to Harvard of Samuel P. Huntington, Thomson Professor of Government, who was lecturing inside the building...