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Gordon, like some 40 former military officers, was being brought to task by a newly emboldened judiciary that followed the restoration of democracy and the end of 17 years of military rule in 1990.
Gordon was facing prosecution by a judge in connection with the 1982 death of labour leader Tucapel Jiménez.
Walker skillfully handled negotiations with India at the time of its emergence as a republic and was appointed Commonwealth secretary, serving from 1950 to 1951.
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 Peter Griffiths - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He served as a councillor until 1963 when he resigned to fight the Smethwick parliamentary seat in the forthcoming general election against the sitting Labour MP Patrick Gordon Walker.
It was, perhaps, this hisorical involvement in issues of Commonwealth immigration that allowed race and nationality to occupy a prominent role in what became an increasingly ill-tempered local campaign by both candidates.
The defeat of Gordon Walker shocked the establishment, causing Harold Wilson to call Griffiths a parliamentary leper.
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 Walker
Walker is the name of a village now within Newcastle upon Tyne in England, the name derived from Old English Wall-kjer, "Wall marsh", the marsh beside Hadrian's Wall.
Walker is also the name of a place in the State of Minnesota in the United States of America: see Walker, Minnesota.
Walker is also a movie based on the life story of William Walker, the American fillibuster who invaded Mexico in the 1850s and made himself President of Nicaragua shortly thereafter.
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 Patrick Gordon Walker, Baron Gordon-Walker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Patrick Chrestien Gordon Walker, Baron Gordon-Walker (7 April 1907–2 December 1980) was a British politician.
Born in Worthing, Gordon Walker was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and was elected Labour MP for Smethwick in a 1945 by-election, after the previous MP, Alfred Dobbs, had been killed in a car accident one day after the General Election.
At the UK general election, 1964, following a successful career in opposition, he was destined to become Foreign Secretary in a widely anticipated Labour government.
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Gordon Walker said he naturally did not know what had been going on but was inclined to think that something sudden must have happened to precipitate the sudden change in leadership.
Gordon Walker said he thought that Erhard was a weak man who wanted to be loved by everybody, and that this was not a good state of mind for a politician to be in.
Gordon Walker said that he felt that one must take into account the fact that if the UK had not sold buses to Cuba then the French would have done so but he hoped that we would make an effort to bring the French into line on trade with Cuba too.
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 Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In 1938, Hogg was chosen as a candidate for Parliament in the Oxford by-election.
This election took place shortly after the Munich Agreement and the Labour candidate Patrick Gordon-Walker was persuaded to step down to allow a unified challenge to the Conservatives;, the Master of Balliol College fought as an 'Independent Progressive' candidate.
Hogg enthusiastically defended the appeasement policy of the Government, and despite support from undergraduates (who were unable to vote), Lindsay could not beat him.
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 Encyclopedia: Patrick Gordon Walker
April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years).
Map sources for Worthing at grid reference TQ1303 Worthing is the largest town and a local government district in West Sussex, England.
Many felt that Gordon Walker had pandered to such sentiment when his local party ran an eve-of-poll leaflet saying: The United Kingdom general election of 1964 result was a very slim majority for the Labour Party, of 4, and led to their first government since 1951.
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 Encyclopedia: Alfred Dobbs
He was followed as MP for Smethwick by Patrick Gordon Walker.
The MP with the shortest term after Dobbs was hunger striker Bobby Sands.
A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance in which participants fast as an act of political protest or to achieve a goal such as a policy change.
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 Janus: The Papers of Baron Gordon-Walker
He was associated with the unpopular exile of Seretse Khama, head of the Ngwato tribe in Botswana, who had married an English woman, Ruth Williams and this led to Walker being accused of racial prejudice.
Walker represented Britain at Victoria Falls Conference on formation of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland but returned to England for the 1951 General Election which Labour lost.
Walker, Patrick Chrestien Gordon (1907-1980) Baron Gordon-Walker, politician
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 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Who could fill the white suit?
Patrick Gordon-Walker was defeated in Smethwick, Birmingham, by a crudely racist campaign associated with Tory Peter Griffiths ("If you want a nigger neighbour, vote Labour" was one Conservative gem).
Gordon-Walker was made foreign secretary anyway and another seat was quickly found for him in Leyton (the sitting MP got a peerage), but he lost that byelection in not dissimilar terms - and resigned his cabinet job.
If not Gordon then maybe Saddam Hussein who, after all, is used to winning 99% of the vote.
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 Alabama Poets Laureate
Sue Brannan Walker is known nationally and internationally for her poetry, as well as for her critical articles on poets and writers such as James Dickey, Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood, Carson McCullers.
Walker’s current works in progress as of 2003 include: a study of Deep ecology in James Dickey’s work; a novel on the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mobile, Alabama; a biography of Jefferson Davis in sonnets; and work on Flannery O’Connor and Kate Chopin.
Carl Patrick Morton is the fifth person to hold the honorary title of Poet Laureate of Alabama.
www.archives.state.al.us /emblems/st_poet.html   (1892 words)

  
 Patrick Gordon Walker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Patrick Chrestien Gordon Walker (April 7, 1907 - December 2, 1980) was a BritainBritish/ politician.
Born in Worthing, Gordon Walker was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and was elected Labour Party (UK)Labour Member of ParliamentMP for Smethwick in a 1945 by-election, after the previous MP, Alfred Dobbs, had been killed in a car accident one day after the UK general election, 1945General Election/.
Patrick Gordon admits that he's a quiet guy.
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 Biographies of leading figures in the struggle against poverty and inequalities in Britain, 1942-1990
Patrick Gordon Walker was born into a middle-class background and was educated at a public school before goind to Oxford, where he was for a time a history don.
Gordon Walker held several ministerial posts under Harold Wilson, particularly those of Foreing secretary (1964-65) and Secretary of State for Education and Science (1967-68).
Defeated Patrick Gordon Walker during the bitterly contested Smethwick campaign of 1964.
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 Patrick Gordon Walker Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Patrick Gordon Walker Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography
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 Author : works by Gordon Walker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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Patrick Chrestien Gordon Walker (April 7, 1907 - December 2, 1980) was a British politician.Born in Worthing, he was elected Labour MP for Smethwick in 1945 and at the UK general election, 1964, following a successful career in opposition, he was destined to become Foreign Secretary in a widely anticipated Labour government.
Many felt that Gordon Walker had pandered to such sentiment when his local party ran an eve-of-poll leaflet saying::Be fair.
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 Crown Commonwealth
The chief villain of this piece is Patrick Gordon Walker.
But lined up with Gordon Walker were two unlikely sentimentalists, Cripps and Attlee, both determined to keep their great achievement, self-governing India, firmly within anything that might be considered, if in name only, the Commonwealth.
Patrick Gordon Walker strongly prefigures contemporary British determination to challenge nobody else's bottom line while always being prepared to make any compromise on Britain's own position; his firm response to New Delhi's 1949 gambit was, 'the Crown link is out.
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 Benjamin Franklin Conaway & Helena McKenzie Walker
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CONAWAY was a farmer in Calhoun, Gordon County, Georgia.
He was captured April 12, 1865, at Salisbury, S. by forces under Major General Thomas commanding Dept. of the Cumberland at Nashville, Tenn, and forwarded to Capt. C.
His wife, HELENA MCKENZIE WALKER died on December 39, 1879, of bronchitis.
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 Irish Marriages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Burke, Patrick, Derryhoile, co. Galway=Nash, Miss, Stephen's Green, Feb. 1806 p.
Gordon, Alex., Bridge Street=Kyle, Miss, Lower Ormond Quay July 1785 p.
Gordon, David=Crawford, Mary, at Crawford's Burn Sep. 1789 p.
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 Walker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Also preceding her in death were two other sons, Garland Walker, in 1990, and Kenneth Ray Walker, in 1978.
Walker was born on October 26, 1921, in Crittenden County.
WILLIAM FLETCHER WALKER, 69, a former resident of Paducah, died at 2:20 p.m.
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 Labour and immigration
Nowhere was that clearer than at Smethwick where, against the national trend, the Conservative candidate, Peter Griffiths, defeated the sitting Labour MP, Patrick Gordon Walker, in the 1964 general election.
Gordon Walker's response all too quickly moved over into the territory occupied by the racists.
Gordon Walker's abject surrender meant Labour was helpless to win voters away from the perception that immigration was the key issue.
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 Patrick Allen - CD Review
Patrick Allen may be a new name to many people, but he has been a fixture of the Twin Cities music scene for around 30 years.
Allen lays his cards on the table with the opening song, "Save It For Some Other Fool." His stock in trade is a very slick blend of soul, funk and blues.
Copyright reuse notice: If you would like to reprint or use this review please include the above copyright notice, contained within the quotation marks, PLUS this statement: "Used with permission." Then send an email to Ray at: mnblues@aol.com indicating how you are using the review or the website page address it will be appearing on.
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 (((HearVox Recent Radio Stories)))
Within two years, some farmers and much of their livestock living downwind of the blast contracted cancer and died, most likely because of the nuclear fallout.
Janet Gordon's brother Kent was one on many affected.
For Independence Day:People with different regional, ethnic, and national accents recite and reflect upon the single, century-old sentence: ""The Pledge of Allegiance." Premiered on NPR Day to Day.
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 Walker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Un walker es una herramienta que camina para la vieja y ligeramente lisiada gente.
El propósito del walker es proporcionar el soporte de modo que la persona pueda mantener el balance y a releive sus patas de su peso.
Walker de Juan (1805-1859), productor escocés del whisky, fundador del walker de Johnnie
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 [A-List] UK state: CIA penetration of the Labour Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The CCF's flagship publication, which began in 1953, became the major outlet for the 'revisionist' thinking of the younger intellectuals around Gaitskell, such as Douglas Jay, Patrick Gordon Walker and Anthony Crosland.
Crosland and Gaitskell were regular guests at CCF conferences: Crosland's CCF role in the fifties as member of the International Council, says one CIA officer, was 'encouraging sympathetic people' to attend CCF conferences.
Their trips were paid for by a variety of foundations and trusts set up to show sympathetic foreign politicians the wonders of America.
lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2003-June/026828.html   (1550 words)

  
 Walker De Patrick Gordon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
El walker de Patrick Chrestien Gordon (de abril el 7 de 1907 - de diciembre el 2 el de an o 80) era político británico.
Muchos se sentían que el walker de Gordon pandered a tal sentimiento cuando su partido local funcionó un refrán del prospecto de la vi'spera-de-encuesta:
English version: Patrick Gordon Walker Next: Mammootty Up
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 Author : works by Ruth Gordon
This artikel Ruth_Gordon is licensed under the GNU free Documentation License.
Gordon, Charles, co-owner of Tri-City Beverages and inventor of "Dr.Enuf"beverage (University of Vermont)
This artikel List_of_people_by_name:_Gor is licensed under the GNU free Documentation License.
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