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“... felt that the reimbursements were too administratively inconvenient. The Foreign Secretary Mr Douglas Hurd could easily survive the critical flak that descended on his department after the true nature of the Pergau dam deal with Malaysia emerged. But the unanimous condemnation of a House of Commons’ committee could be ignored in a way that was not ...”

“... and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, had planted the bomb in Malta on behalf of Libyan intelligence. Douglas Hurd, the foreign secretary, announced to the House of Commons that Libyans alone were suspected and that other countries were not implicated. Years of protracted negotiations were to take place before the Libyan government agreed to release the two ...”

“... Thatcher’s cabinet?’ It was 1984. He was after political disgrace, looking for a turncoat Hurd, a Pym, a Raison, a Jopling. What was a Wood? We had no family connections, to Eton or anywhere else much. The only reason I was at the school was my mother’s madly aspirant zeal, her Scottish petit-bourgeois tirelessness. My older brother and I were both ...”

“... been uncovered by a team of Avon and Somerset detectives originally formed in August 1987 after Douglas Hurd, then Home Secretary, asked Jim Sharples, then Deputy Chief Constable of the Avon and Somerset Force, to investigate new alibi evidence submitted on behalf of Paul Hill. Two years later, as a result of the inquiry into that evidence. ...”