Word: whitelaw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BECKETT FESTIVAL OF RADIO PLAYS (NPR, debuting April 2). Radio drama, alas, has largely gone the way of the gramophone. But National Public Radio is doing its bit this month to revive it with the U.S. premiere of five plays written for the medium by Samuel Beckett. Billie Whitelaw and David Warrilow star in the opener, All That Fall, about an aging woman meeting her blind husband at a railroad station. Following it, on successive Sunday nights: Embers, Words and Music, Cascando and Rough for Radio...
...Force Minister Lord Lambton lost his job when photographers caught him in bed with two prostitutes. As the tabloids breathlessly chronicled the latest ado, political circles in London fell into that giddy state that only a really juicy scandal can produce. Even a former Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Whitelaw, commented sarcastically: "Very interesting in many ways," he said of the Pamella Bordes affair, "and rather amusing...
...Former Prime Minister Edward Heath urged Thatcher to reject internment, however, contending that it proved disastrous after the policy was introduced in 1971. Not only was Britain widely denounced for violating human rights, but the internment policy triggered a bloody I.R.A. bombing campaign. Predicts former Northern Ireland Secretary Lord Whitelaw, who abandoned the practice in 1975: "Such a move would inevitably result in violence on a truly major scale...
Conservative strategists spent the weekend analyzing thick printouts detailing the results from the 369 councils. Thatcher retired to Chequers, her official country residence, where she planned to meet with top political counselors, including Conservative Party Chairman Norman Tebbit, Deputy Prime Minister Viscount Whitelaw and Chief Whip John Wakeham. She reportedly intended to make a final decision early this week. If Thatcher's choice is for a snap election, she will inform her Cabinet, then ask Queen Elizabeth to dissolve Parliament. The favored election date is June...
...Instead, Whitelaw Reid, one of the paper's editors, seized control. The notorious financier Jay Gould almost certainly backed Reid's takeover, but the issue of such unsavory support soon became academic. In 1881 Reid married Elisabeth Mills, whose father had an immense fortune: "The Mills millions turned the paper into a hereditary possession . . . In that loss of dynamism were planted the seeds of its doom...