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Z-Word Blog (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Mairead Maguire yesterday stated that Israel and only Israel should have its membership of the UN suspended, or revoked entirely, as a punishment for ignoring UN resolutions. Maguire’s pronouncements and activities regularly make the news because she was, along with Betty Williams, awarded the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to build a [...]
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BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
Via Dan Savage : Savage also draws attention to an article containing this key data point: Sacramento NAACP President Betty Williams said her chapter was so divided it chose not to take a position on Proposition 8, although the California NAACP opposed it. "We were [...]
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Ecademy: user blogs (Free subscription) | 19/10/2008
Listening to some keynote Motivational Speakers over the years, surprisingly most of the upbeat, positive ones are Americans. I attended my first Global Fitness Idea Convention at Loughborough University and the keynote speaker Betty Williams's style was a cross between Joan Rivers and Ruby Wax. She arrived on stage dressed in a black suit, covered in cut out 'red roses' with her suitcases, announcing...
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ConservativeHome's Seats & Candidat (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
The Western Mail is reporting that Labour MP Betty Williams, 64, is standing down from one of our party's top target seats in Wales. Tory candidate Guto Bebb will feel even more confident of overturning the projected Labour majority of...
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icWales (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
WELSH Labour MP Betty Williams has announced she will stand down at the next general election.
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ORDOVICIUS (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
Translation of a post by Vaughan Roderick: Betty Williams' decision not to stand in the new constituency of Aberconwy is wholly understandable. Why on earth should she offer herself as some kind of political sacrifice in a seat that is to all intents and purposes impossible for Labour to win next time? Labour's problem here of course is the fact that the boundaries of the old seat of Conwy have
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icWales (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
WELSH Labour MP Betty Williams is to stand down at the next General Election.
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
Labour MP Betty Williams says she will bow out at the general election.
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David Cornock's other blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
Betty Williams is standing down as MP for Aberconwy (currently Conwy) at the next election. An MP since 1997, she says that at the age of 64 she wants to re-balance her workload. Lest anyone doubt her loyalty to Gordon Brown, Mrs Williams says in a statement: "There is no one I would trust more to lead us through difficult times. I have no respect for those, particularly former Ministers, who criticise...
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Labour Matters (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
The North Wales Weekly News reports that the Conwy MP Betty Williams has announced her intention to step down at the next General Election. Mrs Williams, 64, who first became an MP at the 1997 election, announced her retirement at a meeting of the Aberconwy Labour Party in Llanfairfechan last night. Read the full article.
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thoughts of oscar (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Pic, Dylan Jones-Evans On the thought of Dylan posting his last post, has anyone seen or heard of Betty Williams campaigning against the post offices that are closing in her constituency? Has anyone in Llandudno heard Cllr Janet Haworth or Cllr Alan Barrett in their wards speaking out against the proposed closure in their ward? I would put money on it no one has, Alan's address is on the Orme, Janet's...
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ORDOVICIUS (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008
Here's how our MPs voted on 42 days: Labour Albert Owen (Ynys Môn): Aye Betty Williams (Conwy): Aye Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): Aye David Hanson (Delyn): Aye Mark Tami (Alyn and Deeside): Aye Ian Lucas (Wrexham): Aye Martyn Jones (Clwyd South): Aye Nicholas Ainger (Carmarthen West & Pembrokeshire South): Aye Nia Griffith (Llanelli): Aye Martin Caton (Gower): Absent Alan Williams (Swansea West)
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Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | 15/05/2008
No Exceptions. No Delays. No Excuses Nobel Peace Prize Laureates: ‘No Exceptions. No Delays. No Excuses.'Reflections on a New Ban on Cluster Bombs by Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan Maguire and Jody Williams. Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 7.30pm-9.00pm, Liberty Hall, Eden Quay, Dublin
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
The Kevin Johnson mayoral campaign, which hired a Washington, D.C. insider to handle its public relations matters, was left reeling Saturday after local NAACP President Betty Williams said one or more of Johnson's aides attributed to her a quote that was inaccurate and that she had not unauthorized. Betty Williams
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Corrieblog (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
Today we raise a glass, doff our caps, and bow deeply (though not simultaneously) to the nation's favourite fictional barmaid, the one and only Betty Williams .
