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  OJPCR 1.4 -- Lord Carrington's Mediation
Lord Carrington had his wounded prestige (from his previous mediation effort).
Carrington used this case to the fullest and this can be considered as an example of the mediators affecting the power situation of the parties.
Lord Carrington was concerned about reaching a settlement based on the British proposals and ending this problem's domination of British foreign policy He was really a manipulator.
www.trinstitute.org /ojpcr/1_4bayer.htm   (8137 words)

  
  Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carrington was educated at Eton and RMA Sandhurst.
After the war Carrington became involved in politics and served in the Conservative administrations of Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry for Agriculture and Food from November 1951 to October 1954 and to the Ministry of Defence from October 1954 to October 1956.
Carrington was again Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords from 1974 to 1979.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Carington,_6th_Lord_Carrington   (561 words)

  
 LORD GREAT CHAMBERLAIN - LoveToKnow Article on LORD GREAT CHAMBERLAIN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Lord Cholmondeley and Lord Carrington as coheirs of the younger sister, opposed his claim, and the crown also claimed for itself on the ground of the action taken by the king in 1526.
Alter a long and historic contest, the House of Lords (1902) declined to re-open the question, and merely re-affirmed the decision of 1781, and the office, therefore, is now vested jointly in the three peers named and their heirs.
The lord great chamberlain has charge of the palace of Westminster, especially of the House of Lords, in which he has an office; and when the sovereign opens parliament in person he is responsible for the arrangements.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LO/LORD_GREAT_CHAMBERLAIN.htm   (692 words)

  
 Guardian | Carrington scoffs at Bloody Sunday 'plot'
Lord Carrington, 83, said there was "never any question" of the British army firing on innocent civilians in Derry's no-go area in early 1972 as the armed forces struggled to maintain law and order.
Bereaved families allege that Lord Carrington, as part of the government, contemplated using unlawful lethal force and did not do enough to protect civilians during the army operation that day.
Lord Carrington said he could not recall any cabinet talks about how to deal with the march but its outcome had come as an "enormous surprise".
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4571232-103551,00.html   (313 words)

  
 The Age 150th   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In a statement, Lord Carrington said that British policy over the Falkland Islands had attracted a great deal of criticism and while he believed much of this was unjustified, he thought it right to take responsibility and to resign as the Minister principally responsible.
Mrs Thatcher herself faces accusations that she is using Lord Carrington and his colleagues as scapegoats: she is the chairman of a key Cabinet foreign affairs and defence committee which considered the Falklands issue in advance of the Argentinian invasion but did not act swiftly to reinforce the nominal garrison of commandos there.
Lord Carrington, a former High Commissioner to Australia, was principally responsible for bringing the long-running Rhodesian dispute to settlement at Lancaster House, London, two years ago.
150.theage.com.au /view_bestofarticle.asp?intid=698   (1338 words)

  
 BBC News | UK POLITICS | 'Suspend Zimbabwe' says Carrington
Lord Carrington told Tim Sebastian for BBC HARDtalk that the Commonwealth did not have a future unless it could restore confidence in its ability by suspending Zimbabwe and its controversial leader, Robert Mugabe.
Lord Carrington was foreign secretary from 1979-1982 and took part in the negotiations that brought an end to white-ruled Rhodesia and paved the way for Zimbabwe.
Lord Carrington who dealt with Mr Mugabe in the 1979 Lancaster House agreement, which oversaw the transition to majority rule in Zimbabwe called the president "very intelligent, but very difficult".
news.bbc.co.uk.edgesuite.net /1/low/uk_politics/1872803.stm   (583 words)

  
 Telegraph | Health | Carrington's gut reaction brings hope
Lord Carrington leads me across his London courtyard garden, rubbing his lower spine and asking for advice about "gardener's back".
Some sufferers, such as Lord Carrington, appear to have a predisposition to the disorder, and develop a persistent condition, with recurring attacks of pain.
Lord Carrington has always been committed to public service and voluntary organisations, including Hope and Homes for Children, a charity that provides foster homes for orphans and disabled children in 14 countries.
www.telegraph.co.uk /health/main.jhtml?xml=/health/2004/07/12/hgut12.xml&sSheet=/health/2004/07/21/ixhmain.html   (1024 words)

  
 Lord Carrington: Our Great Mistake In The Balkans
When Lord Carrington was Secretary General of Nato in the mid 1980s it was the Soviet Union that was the potential enemy and Nato was designed to preserve the integrity of the Atlantic area.
Lord Carrington pooh-poohs any suggestion that his resignation was a matter of honour and that honour has largely gone out of the window in today’s political climate.
Lord Carrington has no liking for President Milosevic but, again, he thinks it was wrong to brand him officially as a war criminal.
www.btinternet.com /~nlpwessex/Documents/Sagacarringtoninterview.htm   (1710 words)

  
 Telegraph | News
Lord Carrington, who was Defence Secretary at the time of the Bloody Sunday shootings in 1972, told the official inquiry into the events yesterday that "there was never any question of the military opening fire on innocent civilians".
Lord Carrington, 83, added: "If civilians were nearby when the Army was fired upon and fired back, it was a tragedy for any innocents who were caught in the crossfire.
Summing up Lord Gifford's line of questioning, the inquiry chairman, Lord Saville, said the QC was alleging that "the design of the British Government was to shoot people on the streets of Derry that afternoon in the hope and expectation that it would aid the political process".
www.portal.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/12/20/nblud20.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/12/20/ixhome.html   (633 words)

  
 Carrington tells of his hate mail for 'British betrayal'
Lord Carrington is no apologist for Robert Mugabe, though he admits to some reservations about endlessly condemning him in public.
Mr Mugabe won the 1980 election with 63 per cent of the vote, and was invited by the governor, Lord Soames, to form the country's new government.
Lord Carrington only once appeared irritated at an implied slur on the late Lord Soames, whom he sent to oversee the election and transition of power.
www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/2000/04/27/wzim327.html   (411 words)

  
 Balkan Repository Project - 15   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Lord Carrington, in his prime, may not have done any better, though he would have behaved more honourably than the present brood of phrasemakers and bombasts.
Lord Carrington also questioned the branding of President Slobodan Milosevic as a war criminal.
Lord Carrington said: "I think what Nato did by bombing Serbia actually precipitated the exodus of the Kosovo Albanians into Macedonia and Montenegro.
www.suc.org /kosovo_crisis/Aug_27/15.html   (733 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Programmes | Breakfast with Frost | VE Day revisited
LORD CARRINGTON: Well I can't really make up my mind when VE Day was because Monty signed on Luneburg Heath on the 4th of May and we were up in, near...
LORD CARRINGTON: Yes on the way up we liberated an appalling concentration camp, a place called Sandbostel and that was very disagreeable and horrible.
LORD CARRINGTON: Well in a sense it was unmixed joy but you know it was joy because I was in the army before the way, that was six years of the army and six years of the war and so that was marvellous.
news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/breakfast_with_frost/4526789.stm   (1111 words)

  
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Lord Gifford QC, representing the family of victim James Wray, told Lord Carrington that the Government had endangered Catholic lives in order to appease Protestant opinion.
Lord Carrington said he was not aware of a secret memo written by General Robert Ford, Commander of Land Forces and the British Army`s second most senior officer in Ulster, suggesting shooting selected hooligan ringleaders would be the best way to restore law and order.
Lord Carrington also had no recollection of any specifics of the army tactics that were to be used on the march before Bloody Sunday.
u.tv /newsroom/indepth.asp?id=26971&pt=n   (727 words)

  
 Lords Hansard text for 25 Mar 1999 (190325-19)
As the noble Lord, Lord Wallace, said, we must play our part and accept our duty and responsibility for being part of Europe, even though it may appear to some noble Lords that there is no direct British connection.
My Lords, the last time that this matter was discussed (which has already been referred to), the noble Lord, Lord Williams of Mostyn, expressed fulsome sympathy with the people of Gibraltar although he said that legally his hands were tied.
The noble Lord, Lord Bethell, is right that we would need further United Kingdom primary legislation--the noble Lord knows more about the domestic law of Gibraltar than I do--and that in all probability legislation in Gibraltar would also be needed.
www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/ld199899/ldhansrd/vo990325/text/90325-19.htm   (6644 words)

  
 We the people
Lord Carrington was in town to deliver the 13th Sir Dorab Tata Memorial Lecture in the course of which, he mentioned the break up of Yogoslavia and the Soviet Union.
The meeting with Lord Carrington was planned so he could have an exchange of ideas with Mumbai’s editors and in the course of the discussions I hazarded an opinion that India had survived because it had a certain cultural unity that was lacking in both the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.
Lord Carrington wanted to know what I meant by culture and even while I professed ignorance on the subject (how can one define culture in one sound byte?) I noted that far and wide had I travelled in India but never felt a stranger anywhere.
www.hvk.org /articles/0400/45.html   (1302 words)

  
 VLADISLAV JOVANOVIC TESTIFIES FOR THE DEFENSE
Instead of trying to find a negotiated political settlement to the crisis, Lord Carrington, the president of the conference, determined that Yugoslavia was in a state of disintegration, and that all of its federal units should be turned into independent countries.
Unfortunately, according to Jovanovic, Lord Carrington reformulated the questions before handing them over to the commission and they were gutted of all of their substance.
Lord Carrington, who was doing his level best to destroy Yugoslavia, has even come to acknowledge that this premature recognition was a mistake.
www.slobodan-milosevic.org /news/smorg021405.htm   (1289 words)

  
 Book Review
They are "apt to think that [their] opinions and comments, and those of political commentators in the media, are the dominant, even the sole, indicators of relations between countries.
He praises Sadat's hospitality to the dying shah, and heaps warm praise on Lord Profumo, whose political career died in the tabloids over his momentary relationship with a courtesan ("a single peccadillo").
Not surprisingly, this is not a book of vengeance or scandalous revelations, hyped by publishers' editors, of the sort with which the high clowns of the White House monetize their fall from power; and his anecdotes are the stuff of after-dinner speeches.
www.wrmea.com /backissues/0489/8904032.htm   (887 words)

  
 US Department of State Daily Press Briefing #149   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The EC and Lord Carrington are offering a path to peace, and we are urging all parties to take advantage of that opportunity.
The European Community, Lord Carrington, we and other countries have made very clear that there is not only the need, but also the opportunity to resolve this peacefully.
Lord Carrington is also chairing a plenary session of The Hague conference on Yugoslavia today.
dosfan.lib.uic.edu /erc/briefing/daily_briefings/1991/9110/149.html   (3295 words)

  
 Solar-Terrestrial Coordinate Systems   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Lord Carrington determined the solar rotation rate by watching low-latitude sunspots back in the 1850s.
Carrington coordinates are heliographic and measured in latitude and longitude in that rotating frame.
Carrington Time is the rotation and longitude of the point on the Sun that is at the sub-terrestrial point.
www.iki.rssi.ru /magbase/REFMAN/GLOSSARY/Coordinates.html   (202 words)

  
 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Lord Peter Alexander Rupert Carrington, The Sixth Baron of Carrington
Foreign Secretary, Defense Minister, Parliamentary leader, and tank commander, Peter Alexander Rupert Carrington, the Sixth Baron Carrington, has proved himself the devoted servant of Her Majesty's government, a friend of the American people, and the faithful defender of human freedom.
Carrington was recognized for maintaining allied solidarity that led to the first superpower arms accord in eight years.
Carrington became secretary-general of NATO on June 25, 1984, and served until 1988.
www.medaloffreedom.com /AlexanderRupertCarrington.htm   (503 words)

  
 Carrington, Baron Biography / Biography of Carrington, Baron Biography Biography
The British political figure Peter Carrington, sixth Baron Carrington (born 1919), became a major figure in Conservative politics during the second half of the 20th century.
He was the only son of the fifth Lord Carrington and succeeded to his title in 1938.
Carrington was educated at Eton and at the age of 19, with his peerage in hand, took officer's training at the Royal Military College in Sandhurst.
www.bookrags.com /biography-carrington-baron   (235 words)

  
 Lord Carrington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Lord CARRINGTON, KG, GCMG, CH, MC, PC was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
An active member of the House of Lords, he served as Parliamentary Secretary 1951-54 in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, and 1954-56 in the Ministry of Defence.
Lord Carrington was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters by Reading University in December 1989 and was installed as its sixth Chancellor in March 1992.
www.extra.rdg.ac.uk /news/facts/officers/carrington.htm   (225 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Programmes | Breakfast with Frost | Lord Carrington, former Conservative Foreign Secretary and Simbarashe ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The deal for the transfer of power in what was then Rhodesia, was agreed at Lancaster House in London, and it was signed by Lord Carrington the Conservative Foreign Secretary at the time, and the leaders of the struggle against white minority rule.
LORD CARRINGTON: This is absolutely irrelevant to what is happening in Zimbabwe at the present time.
LORD CARRINGTON: Why do you think, I may say they say Ambassador, you've been suspended from the Commonwealth, you're not any longer a Commonwealth, not even a High Commissioner, you're an Ambassador.
212.58.240.144 /1/hi/programmes/breakfast_with_frost/4323423.stm   (1240 words)

  
 wiki/Lord Carrington Definition / wiki/Lord Carrington Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, KGThe Most Noble Order of the Garter is an English order of chivalry with a history stretching back to mediƦval times; today it is Europe's oldest national order of knighthood in continuous existence and the pinnacle of the British honours system.
The Admiralty Board replaced the Board of Admiralty (officially the Lords Commissioners for Exercising the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, etc.) when the functions of that office were incorporated into the Ministry of Defence in 1964....
His job with the official title of Lord Privy Seal, was the chief government spokesman in the House of Commons for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs working to the Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington who sat in the House of Lords.
www.elresearch.com /wiki/Lord_Carrington   (2126 words)

  
 DavidIcke.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It was Carrington who manipulated the Lancaster House negotiations in London so that the white minority government of Ian Smith in Rhodesia was replaced by the dictatorship of Robert Mugabe, the man who has since raped the country and the nation for his personal fortune and rules the country as a Hitler-like dictator.
Lord Carrington had the nerve to write to the Times Newspaper calling for "free and fair elections" in Zimbabwe - Carrington would not know the meaning of free and fair if it bit him on the bum.
While Lord Carrington's proposals, in the absence of Giles, tied the Rhodesian delegation in mental knots and won the day, the police were advised that Giles was missing.
www.davidicke.com /icke/articles2/backzimbabwe.shtml   (2371 words)

  
 0424carr.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Lord Peter Carrington, former secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), will deliver the 1996 George W. Ball Lecture, titled "Some Thoughts on Foreign Policy after the Collapse of the Soviet Union" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Thursday, May 2 at 8:00 p.m.
NATO was created to implement the North Atlantic Treaty, signed on April 4, 1949, which sought to establish a military counterweight to the Soviet military presence in postwar eastern Europe, and went on to function as the primary collective-defense agreement of the Western powers in opposition to communist forces in Europe.
Lord Carrington has held a variety of positions in the English government, including secretary of state for foreign and commonwealth affairs, minister of overseas affairs, secretary of state for defense, chair of the Conservative Party, First Lord of the Admiralty, and British High Commissioner to Australia.
www.princeton.edu /pr/news/96/q2/0424carr.html   (313 words)

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