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	Westland affair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Westland affair was a political scandal for the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher in 1986.
		The struggling Westland company, Britain's last helicopter manufacturer, was to be the subject of a rescue bid.
		The Westland affair originated with Alan Bristow's bid for the company in April 1985.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Westland_affair (1698 words)

	The Rise of Militant: Winston, Westland & Wapping
		The public strife within the Tory Party over the Westland affair has given workers a revealing glimpse of the greed, deceit and hypocrisy of the ruling class.
		Heseltine, who at the time of the Westland affair was denouncing back-stabbing practices largely because it was carried out by Thatcher, was himself prepared to use precisely those methods when it suited him.
		The government was in complete disarray over the Westland scandal and they had still not dared to proceed with the sacking of GCHQ workers for fear of the massive industrial action which this would provoke.
	www.socialistparty.org.uk /militant/ch29.htm (1635 words)

	Suburban News Publications, Columbus, Ohio
		Members of the Westland softball team gather after losing 1-0 in the opening round of the district tournament Monday against Central Crossing.
		Westland had two runners gunned down at home on the night, and saw a 0-0 game slip away in the sixth inning when Crossing's Lora Schulze hit a two-out, RBI single to right field.
		Westland collected just two hits compared to Crossing's five but played errorless defense while the Comets (14-12) committed two defensive miscues.
	www.snponline.com /NEWS5-10/5-10_wnsoftball.htm (737 words)

	Westland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Westland was the planned Nazi German name for occupied Great Britain and the Netherlands.
		The Westland affair was a 1986 British political crisis stemming from the government's ownership of Westland Aircraft.
		Westlands, a commercial centre and an administrative division in Nairobi, Kenya.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Westland (137 words)

	Westland (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Westland Aircraft was a British aircraft manufacturer located in Yeovil in Somerset, formed just before the start of World War II.
		Westland would then go on to be the major designers of the Supermarine Seafire, a navalized conversion of the Spitfire.
		The split, which became known as the Westland affair was over whether to push the company into a European deal or accept the US company\'s offer.
	www.aircraft.airframe.org.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /westland/index.html (598 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| International \| The fall-guy
		It is a classic political scandal that is already being compared to the 1986 Westland helicopter affair which brought down a senior cabinet minister in the Thatcher government and very nearly claimed the Iron Lady herself.
		As with Westland, the story revolves around a government leak and questions of due procedure.
		In the case of Westland, a cabinet minister, Leon Brittan, copped the blame and resigned.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/649/in4.htm (1223 words)

	Westland affair (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Penners Recent discussions involving the British state, Thatcherism and the defence industry touched on the Westland affair, which, so soon after the miners' strike ended in 1985, came closest to toppling Thatcher prior to the Tory putsch in 1990 that saw her off thanks to her rigid attachment to the poll tax.
		In an ignominious epilogue to the Westland saga, nine of the 19 helicopters acquired by India for £65m in the mid-1980s have been shipped back to the UK to be stripped down for spare parts.
		India bought 21 Westland 30s in 1985 after Margaret Thatcher persuaded Rajiv Gandhi, then prime minister, to ignore the advice of his aviation experts, who were against the sale.
	www.mail-archive.com.cob-web.org:8888 /pen-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu/msg58074.html (649 words)

	Poses from Posties. - 'The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril' - book review National Review - Find ...
		Westland was a small British manufacturer of helicopters, and it would have failed without the sale of a significant minority of its shares to either the Sikorsky Corporation of America or a European consortium.
		Heseltine ended up resigning from the cabinet, on the grounds that Sikorsky's stake would ultimately mean that Westland's highly skilled workforce would become "merely a metal- bashing operation" for the Americans.
		As it was, he said, Westland made "the best helicopters in the world"; they just couldn't get enough people to buy them to stay in business.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_6_54/ai_84107377 (867 words)

	Westland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		---- Westland Aircraft is a British aircraft manufacturer and part of the AgustaWestland group.
		In 1986 a spilt in the British cabinet over ownership of Westland lead to the Westland affair.
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	westland.kiwiki.homeip.net (159 words)

	Westland. End of the line for British helicopters? - PPRuNe Forums
		Westland is not the only helicopter manufacturer in the UK, but the other one is keeping a very low profile until it's products are ready for launch.
		"Westland is exactly the kind of high tech and high skilled employer that we need to retain in the UK," he said.
		GKN announced in May that it was planning to sell its 50% stake in Agusta Westland to Italy's Finmeccanica, the holder of the remaining 50% share.
	www.pprune.org /forums/showthread.php?t=130699 (2280 words)

	Suburban News Publications, Columbus, Ohio
		[westland] The South-Western City Schools district, having lost hope for funding through a 1-percent base income tax when it was soundly defeated at the polls last week, is looking to get more feedback from the community.
		Westland's offense gets the call of a play from quarterback Kasey Wendal during the Cougars' playoff game against Upper Arlington.
		[westland] The 2006 season is one that'll be indelibly etched into the minds of all those close to the Westland football program.
	www.snponline.com /NEWSPAPERS/WESTLAND.htm (497 words)

	Does Britain like America? National Review - Find Articles
		Britain's reaction to the Libyan affair is but the climax of a succession of related incidents.
		First came the Westland affair, in which the Minister of Defense walked out of a cabinet meeting and resigned because Sikorsky, a division of an American firm, was the favored bidder to rescue a bankrupt British helicopter company.
		Both factions talked about Westland and BL as though America were a huge vacuum cleaner, sucking up the wealth of the world and leaving everyone else impoverished.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_v38/ai_4307677 (767 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 9 \| 1986: Heseltine quits over Westland
		Mr Heseltine stormed out of a meeting at Number 10 today saying his views on the future of the Westland helicopter company were being ignored.
		He said the final straw came when Mrs Thatcher insisted all his public comments on Westland would have to be vetted by officials before being released.
		Westland's directors are urging shareholders to back the Sikorski package.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/9/newsid_2516000/2516187.stm (452 words)

	A-list message, [A-List] Westland affair
		Papers passed by the Guardian to the national audit office reveal that a deal to recover £900,000 from the repatriation of the stricken helicopters and use the cash to relieve poverty in India is likely to collapse.
		At that time, Westland even considered buying back the helicopters for £5m to resell to the Danes or offering AES a deal to market the spare parts to its own customers.
		Last night after the Guardian revealed it had minutes of the deal, Westland appeared to change its mind - saying an offer to inspect and recertify the parts languishing in Britain was still "on offer" to AES.
	archives.econ.utah.edu /archives/a-list/2002/msg00082.htm (634 words)

	TIME.com: Britain Suspicious Leak -- Feb. 3, 1986 -- Page 1
		The affair has revolved around two rival rescue bids for Westland, an ailing firm that is Britain's only helicopter maker.
		About an hour before the Westland board was to recommend acceptance of the Sikorsky bid to its shareholders, excerpts from the Mayhew letter were leaked to the press.
		Thatcher's critics have charged that this was done to discredit Heseltine in his role as champion of the Europeans.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,960536,00.html (633 words)

	Politics \| Heseltine demands fresh inquiry into Westland affair
		Lord Heseltine today demanded a fresh investigation into the Westland affair and the release of paperwork relating to the crisis under the Freedom of Information Act.
		But the then prime minister, Mrs Thatcher, and her trade and industry secretary, Leon Brittan, wanted to see Westland merge with America's Sikorsky - which is what then occurred.
		He said: "What I said at the time was true, and every time there is a revelation it confirms what I said," Lord Heseltine said.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5372970-107982,00.html (581 words)

	Brittan, Sir Leon - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Under Margaret Thatcher he served as home secretary (1983-85) and secretary for trade and industry (1985-86).
		He resigned from the government in the aftermath of the Westland helicopter affair (1986), which involved the leak of confidential communication.
		An advocate of the closer integration of Britain with Europe, he served (1989-99) on the European Commission of the European Community and European Union.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-brittan.html (239 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Heseltine demands fresh inquiry into Westland affair
		Speaking on the 20th anniversary of the crisis - which almost dislodged Mrs Thatcher from Number 10 and cost both Mr Heseltine and Leon Brittan their jobs - the Tory peer said he had given permission for the release of his documents relating to the affair, but publication was being blocked by others.
		The then defence secretary favoured a European solution, integrating Westland and BAE with Italian and French companies.
		But following Lord Heseltine's resignation, Mr Brittan was also forced to resign after it emerged his office was behind the leaking of a memo from the solicitor general undermining Lord Heseltine.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /foi/story/0,9061,1684974,00.html?gusrc=rss (640 words)

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		I don't want to argue the semantics of influence versus control, but the Government clearly exerts the former, not the latter.
		The Kelly affair could never have occurred otherwise.
	www.chud.com /forums/showthread.php?t=79861 (628 words)

	Scotland on Sunday - Opinion - It's Westland revisited, but will the swan song remain the same? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Not only did it result in the resignation of Thatcher’s Trade Secretary, Leon Brittan, but she herself wondered privately, at the height of the affair, whether she would survive in office.
		In the Westland affair it was the former Defence Secretary, Michael Heseltine, who stormed out of the Cabinet on January 9, 1986, and announced that he could not serve "with honour" under the Prime Minister again.
		It revolved around whether Westland, which needed to invest in a new generation of helicopters, should buy the American Sikorsky Black Hawk or a European machine, the NH90.
	scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /opinion.cfm?id=812472003 (723 words)

	Essential Margaret Thatcher \| Margaret Thatcher Foundation
		In January 1986, enduring divisions between left and right in the Thatcher Cabinet were publicly exposed by the sudden resignation of the Defence Minister, Michael Heseltine, in a dispute over the business troubles of the British helicopter manufacturer, Westland.
		The fallout from the 'Westland Affair' challenged Margaret Thatcher's leadership as never before.
		She survived the crisis, but its effects were significant.
	www.margaretthatcher.org /essential/biography.asp (3007 words)

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		The Dreyfus Affair is another example of a political scandal in which sex and money were not the focus.
		In 1988 UK junior health minister Edwina currie was forced to resign after she suggested that UK egg production was riddled with salmonella and the government was faced with an angry farming lobby.
		You could also make a good case that the Westland affair - which led to the resignation of 2 senior British cabinet members, and can be linked to the eventual resignation of Margaret Thatcher - was a disagreement over a matter of trade policy rather than of personal gain.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Life in the Jungle: My Autobiography: Books: Michael Heseltine (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		His entrepreneurial instincts consistently vindicate his belief that if his Conservative colleagues in the 1980s "had known more about the world as it is and not how theory says it ought to be, they might have been able to make more temperate and rational contributions to the great economic debate of the 1980s".
		Thatcher's behaviour over Westland is viewed as "an affront to the standards of government in which I profoundly believed".
		There is nothing new at all in his account of the Westland affair or of his part in Thatcher's overthrow.
	www.amazon.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /Life-Jungle-Autobiography-Michael-Heseltine/dp/0340739150 (1115 words)

	Westland - Westland affair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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		Westland is a new municipality in Zuid-Holland province; it was formed 1 Jan 2004 by the [Westland regional flag] by Gerard van der Vaart, 4 May 2005
		Westland Hotel Motel, total accommodation, Dining and entertainment venue in Whyalla.
	gaius.surferfind.com /?q=gaius-westland (207 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Opinion - Tony and cronies trying hard to be sleazier than thou (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		When it came to political skullduggery, the Westland affair showed a professional operation at work.
		While it's not clear exactly who knew what, the Iron Lady at the height of her powers was sufficiently worried to carry a resignation letter in her handbag.
		John Major was conducting an affair with Edwina Currie during his career, by luck getting the chance to cover his tracks over mistaken claims he'd been sleeping with Downing Street caterer Claire Latimer.
	news.scotsman.com /opinion.cfm?id=1044372006 (947 words)

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		Wholly consistent with the Birt/Dyke policy regarding news and current affairs, as evidenced by the output of BBC World...
		Italy was involved then, too, as the government's preferred bidder for Westland was the US/Italian Sikorsky-Fiat consortium, rather than the European consortium involving British Aerospace that Defence Secretary Michael Heseltine was trying to put together.
		TODD Yes, and remember he started out as an assistant secretary=20 for international affairs, became under-secretary for international, then= =20 deputy secretary, and finally Treasury secretary at the end of the Clinton= =20 years.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2001-November.txt (17930 words)

	Heseltine, Michael Ray Dibdin - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		He held junior posts in the Heath government (1970-74).
		In Margaret Thatcher 's government, he was secretary for the environment (1979-83) and then secretary for defense in 1983, resigning in protest over his treatment in the 1986 Westland helicopter affair, which involved the leak of a confidential communication.
		He was regarded as Thatcher's strongest rival and initiated a challenge to her leadership in 1990.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-heseltin.html (248 words)

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