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Also fired were Sir Ian Gilmour, a haughty and intellectual aristocrat who was Deputy Foreign Secretary, and Education Secretary Mark Carlisle. Both men had expressed doubts about Thatcher's economic policies. Afterward Gilmour confessed that he had written his resignation a month ago in the full expectation that he would be fired. "Every Prime Minister has to reshuffle from time to time," he said in his resignation broadside. "It does no harm to throw the occasional man overboard, but it does not do much good if you are steering full speed ahead for the rocks." Humphrey Atkins, a Thatcher...
...Andover Jacques was a fine swimmer in his own right. That he could come to Harvard, choose to quit swimming competitively and then make such a large time commitment to the team in his new capacity demonstrates his ability to adapt easily," former Andover classmate Andy Gilmour says...
...Europe, is the vital defender of NATO'S southeastern flank and shares a 350-mile border with the Soviet Union. Thus the U.S. and its Western European allies tended to be sympathetic to, if somewhat saddened by, the generals' reasons for seizing power. As Sir Ian Gilmour, Britain's Deputy Foreign Secretary, put it, "No one likes army coups. But when you have so many political killings and you have spent five months trying to elect a President, then democracy does not appear to be working very well...
Britain's Deputy Foreign Secretary Sir Ian Gilmour visited Cairo last week and later reported that the notion of a Western European initiative had been "very warmly received" by top Egyptian officials. Gilmour stressed that any Western European action would be "complementary to and not a replacement of the Camp David peace process. But he also noted that because the interests of Western Europe and the Middle East were so "deeply intertwined"-not least where oil supplies are concerned-the Europeans could not afford to allow the peace process to languish in limbo during an American election year...
...start of the show, roadies-rechristened "wallies" for the occasion-start stacking 340 cardboard bricks until, at intermission, the wall stands completed. During the second half, a few strategic ruptures appear through which Waters and his fellow Pinkies-Keyboard Player Rick Wright, Drummer Nick Mason and Guitarist Dave Gilmour-can be glimpsed doing their stuff...