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... admitted that the White House had mislead Congress about its secret efforts to arm the Contra rebels of Nicaragua. He was speaking on the second day of testimony on the Iran-Contra scandal. Robin BuUer was appointed the new head of the Civil Service. He ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1987
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 948 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

Cheshire Homes are all about caring... in so many ways Founder, Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, VC. OM, DSO, ..

... Homes are very severely handicapped men, women and children suffering from a wide range of conditions. Sometimes unable to speak, or to move much more than a hand or foot. A Cheshire Home offers them much more than just physical care. It gives them the ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1987
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 127 | Page: 55 | Tags: none

Travellers Tales

... Gipsies can’t aiford it.” China collections, pride of gipsies down the years, deck the caravans wall to wall. “The men won’t speak to outsiders; it’s a rule.” One offers to sell me his Ford Capri for £4,000. No? The van for two? At last, a stereotype; the ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1987
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 984 | Page: 35 | Tags: none

London’s corridors of power. The network of companies represents a privatization of the intelligence community. ..

... terms with the Prime Minister. Taxed on this in the House of Commons, Mrs Thatcher has refused to reply. Walker’s friends speak of him going round to Downing Street, for private chats with the Prime Minister. After repeated questions from opposition MPs ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1987
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2006 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

Turkey in top gear

... but it was hardly a situation in which names and addresses would be exchanged —which is fortunate since our victim did not speak English, nor we Turkish. Despite the hazards of importuning waiters and wayward motorcyclists, Turkey is splendid and a car ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1987
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1618 | Page: 36 | Tags: none

ARCHER ON THE BALL

... makes you laugh you are twice blessed. One such of my acquain t- ance is Mr James Tarbu which is the reason I went Glasgow to speak at a dinner organised by the Scottish ...

Published: Monday 03 August 1987
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 552 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

The lord is an .ss

... hostile newspaper jolly reaction. It is the pp of their own, he said. Lord Havers is head of the judiciary. But he seems to speak as a member of the Cabinet which is trying to gag the press rather than as a legal authority who ought to avoid taking sides ...

Published: Monday 03 August 1987
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 119 | Page: 2 | Tags: none