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  Geoffrey Howe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Lord Howe of Aberavon (born December 20, 1926), formerly Sir Geoffrey Howe, is a senior British Conservative politician.
Geoffrey Howe was born in 1926 at Port Talbot in Wales.
Howe's position was made difficult by significant differences between his views and those of his Prime Minister, especially on relations between the UK and the European Commmunity.
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 Margaret Thatcher
A challenge was precipitated by the resignation of Sir Geoffrey Howe, with whom Thatcher had for a long time had very bad personal relations, on 1 November 1990.
The immediate pretext was a particularly combative answer she had given to a parliamentary question in the Commons on the 30 October 1990, in which she denounced the president of the European Commission, Jacques Delors.
In his resignation speech Howe condemned Thatcher's policy on the European Community as being devastating for British interests, and openly invited "others to consider their own response", which led Michael Heseltine to announce his challenge for the party leadership (and, by extension, the premiership).
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 BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | Iron Lady versus union baron
People like Jim Prior, now Lord Prior, the then Leader of the House of Commons, believes it was the crucial event that led to the government having, in effect, to give in to the miners' demands.
That action was led by an obscure official from the Yorkshire area of the NUM - Arthur Scargill.
Geoffrey Howe, now Lord Howe of Aberavon, was in the Cabinet in 1974 as he was in 1984.
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 The Rt Hon The Lord Howe of Aberavon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
The Rt Hon The Lord Howe of Aberavon
Lord Howe has been responsible for the preparation and passage through Parliament of the principal legislation providing for Britain's membership of the European Community, for the 1986 enlargement of the Community and for the European Community's 1992 programme.
Born in Port Talbot, South Wales, in 1926, Lord Howe was educated at Winchester College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
www.academy-experts.org /people/HOWE.HTM   (284 words)

  
 Trades Union Congress - A celebration of the life of Rt Hon Lord Murray of Epping Forest 1922-2004
Rt Hon Lord Healey CH Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1974 -1979
Lord Armstrong has already referred to the risk he was prepared to take in trying to get the GCHQ to agree to a no-strike agreement, which he believed would head off what would otherwise be, and turned out to be, a bitter and often painful confrontation with the Government of Mrs Thatcher.
My Lords, ladies and gentlemen, toward the end of his life, Harold Macmillan said that when you are assessing somebody’s achievement you do not look at what they did at the summit of their career.
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 Geoffrey Howe - ClanBrandon Books
Sir Geoffrey Howe, Q.C., MP., Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on 17 January 1989 (Cm) — Item may not be in stock.
Sir Geoffrey Howe, Q.C., M.P., Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, at the meeting to follow up the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe held at Madrid on 7 September 1983 (Cmnd) Geoffrey Howe — Item may not be in stock.
The extraction of teeth Geoffrey L Howe — Item may not be in stock.
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 Guardian | Smallweed
Did anyone, I wonder, ever interrupt an oration by Geoffrey Howe - now Lord Howe of Aberavon, and unburdening himself, I imagine, more slowly than ever - with the words: "Not so fast!"?) Fact sometimes feeds on fiction.
This seems an odd and potentially dangerous ambiguity, since when you addressed a high-class travelling chairmaker by this traditional term, you must have run some risk of being punched in the hooter.
There are other reminders here too of how the world has mightily changed since Baldwin won the election of '35.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4868983-103390,00.html   (835 words)

  
 PIUS ANYIM THE SYMBOL OF OUR POLITICS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Therefore, an attempt to deny the 120 Million-Naira story will only serve to destroy the credibility of this government and the president may find to his surprise that his footmen may not wish to be left with a weeping baby.
You may recall Geoffrey Howe, now Lord Howe of Aberavon who was at a time her Foreign Secretary and Michael Heseltine, her nemesis, who were proactive on the issues of Europe.
The position of their boss was unacceptable to them and she as always made her position known through veiled means and that includes her displeasure with the position held by Howe and Heseltine; the two gentlemen.
nigerdeltacongress.com /particles/pius_anyim_the_symbol_of_our_pol.htm   (1993 words)

  
 The Hungarian Quarterly, VOLUME XL * No. 154 * Summer 1999 - Geoffrey Howe
The years before the collapse of the Berlin Wall and thus of the Iron Curtain—an event for which your own country can claim credit—are bound to be perceived as the Dark Age; and the years since that seismic event, by contrast, as a near—Golden Age.
The outcome is bound to have a powerful impact upon the way in which our nations, along with many others will handle the agenda that I have been trying to discuss.
Lord Howe of Aberavon (formerly Sir Geoffrey Howe) served in Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Cabinet as Chancellor of the Exchequer for four years, 1979—83, as Foreign Secretary for six years, 1983—89, and as Deputy Prime Minister for twelve months, 1989—90.
www.hungarianquarterly.com /no154/020.html   (3838 words)

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