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  Commanding Heights : Lord Cecil Parkinson | on PBS
LORD CECIL PARKINSON: Some of the great figures of the party felt that this was as much what I might call a class thing as it was the fact that she was a woman.
LORD CECIL PARKINSON: Well, the Falklands factor was a realization that she was a toughie and that she'd led a successful campaign and that all the things that she stood for had come to fruition.
LORD CECIL PARKINSON: Shortly after the Argentineans invaded the Falklands, the secretary of state of the American government, Alexander Haig, Gen. Haig, flew into London to meet up with the War Cabinet, and he was trying to act as an honest broker between the Argentineans and ourselves.
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 Cecil Parkinson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cecil Edward Parkinson, Baron Parkinson, PC (born 1 September 1931), is a British Conservative politician and former Cabinet Minister.
Subsequently, as a result of a dispute over child maintenance payments, Parkinson (with Keays' initial consent) was able to gain an injunction in 1993, forbidding the British media from making any reference to their daughter.
Parkinson, who partnered Paul Merton on the episode, took considerable ribbing (although the injunction prevented any reference to his major scandal) but emerged from the programme intact - even opposing captain and satirist Ian Hislop admitted afterwards that he had come across very well.
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 Cecil Parkinson
Cecil Parkinson, Baron Parkinson of Carnforth, PC (born September 1 1931), is a British Conservative politician and former Cabinet minister.
He resigned along with Margaret Thatcher when she was replaced by John Major, and did not contest the 1992 general election.
He was created Lord Parkinson of Carnforth after the 1992 elections, and returned to front-line politics when he was made Conservative Party Chairman again by William Hague in June 1997.
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 Guardian | Parkinson's daughter in a touching family drama with a sub-plot of revenge
Watching the lives of Cecil Parkinson's former mistress, Sara Keays and her daughter Flora, it's easy to be reminded of the House of Atreus, and a blood feud which has to be passed down through the generations.
Parkinson did the opposite, and clearly Ms Keays believes that was mistaken, even wicked.
Cecil Parkinson is an old man now, on the fringe of politics.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4332308-103685,00.html   (589 words)

  
 Observer | Parkinson faces fresh court fight over love child
Sara Keays yesterday used her new freedom of speech to declare that she 'may have to take Cecil to court again' to provide for the long-term needs of her daughter, who is epileptic and suffers from a mild form of autism.
Keays hints that Parkinson was placed under considerable political pressure to renounce her and stay with his wife, which he did when her pregnancy was revealed in 1983.
Parkinson was eventually forced to resign, but worked his way back into top-level politics and was reinstated as chairman for a brief period at the beginning of William Hague's leadership.
observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4330149-102279,00.html   (673 words)

  
 The Hindu : Sex and the politician
Parkinson was a favourite of Margaret Thatcher and at one time thought to be her intended successor.
Her bitterness continued to be aired in public for a long time (too long for her to retain much sympathy), and was compounded by the fact that the child, a girl, was born with an impairment.
Cecil Parkinson returned to political favour, but was never again a front-runner for the highest offices of state.
www.hinduonnet.com /2001/01/07/stories/1307046r.htm   (1750 words)

  
 The Scotsman - Parkinson war of words over Flora
CECIL Parkinson was yesterday drawn into a war of words with former mistress Sara Keays, claiming he had made generous financial provision for his illegitimate daughter, Flora.
Mr Parkinson, who spent last week at his £1million Spanish villa in the Andalusian mountains near Gibraltar, went on to claim that his affair with Sara was "virtually over" a year before Flora was born and that he was urged by allies to demand a DNA test to confirm he was the father.
She claimed Mr Parkinson had used a "gagging" order from the courts to keep Flora hidden away to try to save his political career and accused the Conservative Party hierarchy of a plot to damage her.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=48882002   (908 words)

  
 Cecil Parkinson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Cecil Edward Parkinson, Baron Parkinson, PC (narozený 1.
Parkinson, kdo partnered Paul Merton na epizodě, vzal značné žebroví (ačkoli soudní příkaz předešel nějakému odkazu k ahoj hlavní skandál) ale se vynořil z programu neporušený - dokonce oponovat kapitána a satirika Ian Hislop vstupoval poté že on se uplatnil velmi dobře.
Parkinson se vrátil k politice první linie, když on byl vyrobený konzervativní stranický předseda znovu William Hague v červnu 1997.
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 ON THIS DAY | 14 | 1983: Parkinson quits over lovechild scandal
Her statement criticises Mr Parkinson's conduct and attitude towards their relationship and the revelation that she was pregnant with his child.
Cecil Parkinson has held several senior positions in the government since 1979, and was credited as the mastermind behind the Tories' successful general election campaign in June.
Mr Parkinson was the fourth Tory MP at the time to hit the headlines for scandal since Thatcher gained power in 1979.
news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/14/newsid_2534000/2534615.stm   (500 words)

  
 Cecil Textbook of Medicine : />
Patients with Parkinson's disease lose their response to levodopa because of the natural progression of the disease and the development of complications as a result of long-term levodopa therapy.
Although non-neuronal elements may participate in the conversion of levodopa to dopamine, the surviving striatal dopaminergic terminals progressively lose their capacity for conversion of levodopa to dopamine, and motor fluctuations and symptomatic deterioration subsequently develop.
The renewed interest in surgical treatment of Parkinson's disease has been stimulated in part by improved understanding of the functional anatomy underlying motor control and refinement of methods and techniques in neurosurgery, neuroradiology, and neurophysiology.
www.merckmedicus.com /ppdocs/us/common/cecils/chapters/443_004.htm   (1227 words)

  
 Sky News Transcripts | Transcript
Cecil Parkinson  first of all, your reaction to the events of the past week, momentous by any measure of party history?.
Well, Cecil is obviously right, we are a party that believes in shoring up the British constitution so we can hardly discard our own.
We need to do exactly what Cecil was describing — and find a way for all the highly talented people on our benches to come together in aid of the party.
www.skynewstranscripts.co.uk /transcript.asp?id=30   (2035 words)

  
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The horse's mouth not being Lord Parkinson, that is. Sara Keays has been trying to destroy this man's reputation ever since he and his family decided to stay together.
According to Cecil and others whom I know and trust, he has never shirked his responsibilities towards Flora, nor did he ever try to shove her into a mental home.
Cecil Parkinson is the real victim, and he has paid dearly for the extra-curricular fun he had.
www.takistopdrawer.us /2002/january/article_2002-Jan-19.html   (714 words)

  
 Telegraph | Comment | This may hurt Flora more than Cecil
In a memorable commentary on the case at the time, Bernard Levin described Cecil Parkinson as a weak man whose course of action seemed to be determined "by whichever strong-minded woman had spoken most sharply to him last" - that is, Ann Parkinson, Margaret Thatcher or Sara Keays.
But Cecil Parkinson made the decision - perhaps again under pressure from other strong-minded women in his life - not to have any contact with Flora and even placed a "gagging order" on media reports about the child.
Truly, for Cecil Parkinson, the Old Testament psalm has been prophetic: behold, his sin is ever before him.
www.telegraph.co.uk /opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2002/01/06/do0602.xml   (640 words)

  
 The trials of Cecil Parkinson - By Michael Gillard - Slate Magazine
Somaia jetted between offices in Dubai and London, where he and Parkinson were to be found in an imposing Mayfair building round the corner from Grosvenor Square.
Parkinson visited Moi during a subsequent trip to Kenya.
Parkinson hosted a party for the newspaper at the Café Royal in London in 1997.
www.slate.com /id/2062142   (1181 words)

  
 Welcome to Warwick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
As an eminent member of the Conservative Party, Lord Parkinson was twice Chairman of the Tories under Margaret Thatcher in 1983 and again under William Hague in 1997 and furthermore had held the position of The Duchy of Lancaster and was the Minister for Transport, Energy and Trade and Industry.
Lord Parkinson was extremely entertaining in providing us with a behind-the-scenes account of the Thatcher Premiership, presenting us with amusing political anecdotes past and present.
After this Lord Parkinson fielded a variety of questions from the audience, of issues ranging from the faults of the European Union today, the rights and wrongs of national security issues in the current ‘climate of fear’, and complications with the London Stock Exchange.
www.warwickschool.org /news/newsitem.php?item=28   (215 words)

  
 TIME.com: Blackpool Blues -- Oct. 24, 1983 -- Page 1
Hours before her keynote speech on Friday, Thatcher accepted "with regret" the eye-catching resignation of Trade and Industry Secretary Cecil Parkinson, architect of the election landslide and one of her closest political advisers.
Parkinson, 52, fell from grace two weeks ago when he announced that Sara Keays, his private secretary and longtime lover, would soon bear his child.
Parkinson only asked me to marry him after I became pregnant, when in fact he first did so in 1979.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,926282,00.html   (765 words)

  
 Printer Friendly Format - This Is Local London   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Thomas defends former Tory MP Margaret Thatcher's former public relations advisor has defended former Hertsmere MP Cecil Parkinson this week after he was criticised over the upbringing of his 18-year-old daughter.
Ms Keays was prevented from speaking out about the plight of her daughter, who has learning difficulties, by an injunction forbidding any publicity, which elapsed on Flora's 18th birthday.
Lord Parkinson, who was MP for Hertsmere between 1974 and 1992 and a favourite of Mrs Thatcher within the Cabinet, said that he had spent more than £500,000 supporting his daughter and had done everything possible to look after her.
www.thisislocallondon.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=38240   (283 words)

  
 Polish president: NATO must be open after expansion Iron Lady haunts Boy Wonder of UK politicsLabor leader's death ...
Party chairman Cecil Parkinson, an arch-Thatcherite, said the 36-year-old leader of the opposition Conservatives had his own style, even if he did share Thatcher's ideals and was her choice to lead the party after its crushing election defeat.
Parkinson was party chairman more than 14 years ago, playing a key role in Thatcher's 1983 election victory.
Parkinson sought to launch a new Conservative doctrine of "Hagueism" to rival the far-right, free-market philosophy of "Thatcherism" that transformed Britain in the 1980s.
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 Written Statement of support for Cecil Parkinson (Keays affair) | Margaret Thatcher Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Written Statement of support for Cecil Parkinson (Keays affair)
Although cast in indirect speech, the statement was quoted in later days as MT’s own words (e.g., The Times, 10 October 1983).
As resignation talk grew, a further statement - perhaps closer to a briefing than a Prime Ministerial statement - was issued on the evening of Sunday 9 October: "There is absolutely no suggestion that Mr Parkinson is about to resign.
www.margaretthatcher.org /speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=105208   (101 words)

  
 JAA - Airport System   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Barton and others have gained confidence in the critical answer to the question of when the high-speed interchange between Interstate 10 and Branan Field-Chaffee Road will be built.
With the picture of Cecil's readiness coming into focus, Barton said an evaluation of how it's marketed should follow.
While Barton's efforts are focused on the undeveloped northern half of Cecil, Bing Parkinson, president of the Jacksonville Aviation Authority's enterprise division, is looking to beef up marketing of the JAA-owned half, mostly fronting the runways.
www.jaa.aero /as/feature_detail.asp?id=162&archive=Current   (451 words)

  
 Parkinson Disease Clinical Resources
Parkinson Disease, Autosomal Dominant Lewy Body: Access document
Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1; Park1: Access document
Parkinson Disease 4, Autosomal Dominant Lewy Body; Park4: Access document
cchs-dl.slis.ua.edu /clinical/neurology/cns/parkinsondisease.htm   (587 words)

  
 Disease-lists
YASIR ARAFAT, (1929-) Palestinensian leader believed to have Parkinson´s due to tremors especially of his lips and hands.
DEBORAH KERR, (1921--) British film actress got an Oscar in 1993 and was diagnozed with Parkinson´s in the last years.
CECIL RHODES, died 1902 at 49, Politician and empirebuilder.
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 village voice > news > Mondo Washington by James Ridgeway
Lord Cecil Parkinson, who served as Margaret Thatcher's secretary for trade and industry, said nonprofit groups have no right to criticize the WTO because they do not represent the general public and that there should never again be a WTO meeting on U.S soil because there is no guarantee of security.
Lord Parkinson also was incensed by President Clinton's "disgraceful" speech in Seattle, and deplored the demonstrations, which caused the delegates to eat sandwiches instead of getting a decent meal.
Moved by Lord Parkinson's remarks, American officials jumped into the debate, asking how NGOs might be "delegitimized." Robert Litan, former associate director of the White House Office on Management and Budget, proposed shunting the protesters into the International Labor Organization, the UN's moribund labor council in Geneva.
www.villagevoice.com /issues/0015/ridgeway.shtml   (1385 words)

  
 BHHRG
A TEAM of British politicians and academics, led by Lord Parkinson, was accused yesterday of whitewashing a rigged election in the oil-rich Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan.
But Lord Parkinson’s seven-strong team, calling itself a “British parliamentary group”, pre-empted the OSCE report with a much more positive assessment.
John Mann, the Labour head of Britain’s all-party parliamentary group on Kazakhstan, claimed Lord Parkinson’s team, which arrived a few days before the election, was designed to discredit the OSCE mission.
www.bhhrg.org /mediaDetails.asp?ArticleID=752   (645 words)

  
 Comment - Archives 14JAN02
Last week Channel 4 showed a documentary about Parkinson's ex-mistress Sarah Keays, and their daughter Flora, a young lady who suffers from a number of medical problems, quite apart from the circumstances of her birth and life until she reached her 18th birthday recently.
If there was ever any doubt (and in my mind there never was), it is now brutally clear how outrageous was, and is, the behaviour of Cecil Parkinson, a sad excuse for a human being.
After a relatively brief period in the political wilderness, this person was brought back into the inner fold of Conservative politics by an [apparently] adoring Margaret Thatcher - her judgement must now be regarded as seriously flawed.
www.billcameron.net /cmar2002/comment1020114.html   (437 words)

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