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Dellow's findings and Home Secretary William Whitelaw's report on it to the Commons last week were harshly critical of palace security. Since the murder in 1979 of Earl Mountbatten, the Queen's cousin, by Irish terrorists, $3.5 million has been spent on electronic beams, microwave barrier fences, closed-circuit TV, remote-controlled locks, reinforced doors and other security measures at Buckingham Palace. Yet Fagan was able to move about at will. The worst failings, however, were human ones. "If police officers had been alert and competent," said Dellow's report sharply, "Fagan would have...
...bottle of wine. There was speculation that authorities had hoped to hush up Fagan's ultimate incursion, but the incident was revealed three days later when a tipster alerted the Daily Express. The intrusion led to a bruising question period in the House of Commons. Home Secretary William Whitelaw, lamely blaming the incident on technical and human error, was badgered by opposition members when he stressed earlier security improvements at Buckingham Palace and declared that security is "still not satisfactory, and more needs to be done." At week's end three police officers were transferred away from palace...
...level British sources, Thatcher herself favors a frontal assault on Port Stanley, currently the Argentine strongpoint. She has also considered a British air strike against Argentina's mainland airbases. But the more cautious members of her inner circle, notably Foreign Secretary Pym and Deputy Prime Minister William Whitelaw, are anxious to keep the avenues for a diplomatic solution open to the very end. They also fear heavy British casualties. Accordingly, they made a bargain with Thatcher, trading their support of her tough stand on the question of Falklands sovereignty for her acquiescence to the step-by-step invasion. Says...
...debate over Thatcher's economic policies and the cold, uncaring image she presents have thoroughly unsettled her own party. The division and rancor that broke into the open at Blackpool were a harsh departure from traditional Tory civility. When Thatcher's Home Secretary, William Whitelaw, put forth a relatively mild motion on law-and-order, it was hooted down. Observed Political Commentator Peter Jenkins in the Guardian: "Beneath the incantations of the simple Thatcherite faith is a nasty tone of class grievance and sullen nationalism...
...will go on the air early next year, CBS-C is leaning heavily on Britain's commercial stations and TV companies in Italy and Germany. From Britain comes a nine-part series on the love life of Napoleon Bonaparte, with Ian Holm as the Little Corporal and Billie Whitelaw as his Josephine; a drama series called A Play for Love, which debuted last week with a new one-acter by John Osborne, starring Alec Guinness; and the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Macbeth, with Ian McKellen as the Scottish insomniac...