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This past July, ECAC Commissioner Scotty Whitelaw called a meeting of the two factions, trying--in vain--to heal the rift. Relations between the groups have turned adversarial, with little talk since the meeting...
Meanwhile, Thatcher finished a Cabinet reshuffle she had begun immediately after the election, when she forced out Francis Pym as Foreign Secretary and eased Deputy Prime Minister William Whitelaw over to the House of Lords. All told, she made more than 60 changes in her government, including twelve in her 21-member Cabinet. Thatcher assured the wary that the ideological balance had not shifted to the right, but the new government certainly bore her stamp. Pym and Whitelaw, for example, were replaced by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey Howe and his deputy Leon Brittan, both devoted Thatcherites. Nigel Lawson...
...incident raised a storm of controversy in the British press and sent shock waves through Parliament. In the House of Commons, Home Secretary William Whitelaw called the shooting "a most serious, grave and disturbing incident." "I can guarantee," Whitelaw promised, "that there will be no coverup, no whitewash, under any circumstances." Said an editorial in the Financial Times: "The event provokes the fear that Britain has taken an unwelcome step toward the gun-toting law-and-order methods which are associated with steadily worsening violent crime in many American cities...
...Ulster. After the disco deaths, Thatcher denounced the visit and urged that it be canceled. But Ken Livingstone, the leftist leader of the Greater London Council (the local government of the capital) and would-be host of the Sinn Feiners, refused to withdraw his invitation. Home Secretary William Whitelaw finally banned the visit outright at the request of police, even though some security experts feared that the move could inspire fresh I.R.A. revenge attacks in England. Noted an angry Ulster Protestant: "The Sinn Fein are not allowed to walk the streets of London, but they can walk the streets...
However correct in law, Fagan's acquittal prompted public expressions of outrage and raised the possibility of legal reform. Home Secretary William Whitelaw said a change in the law of trespass may be considered to make it possible to charge trespassers with criminal penalties. Said the tabloid Sun: "Next time you are walking along the Mall and feel thirsty, why not pop into Buckingham palace for a glass...