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Owen trained as a doctor at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge before becoming MP for Plymouth, Devonport in 1966. He became Foreign Secretary in the Labour government of James CallaghanJames Callaghan is also a former MP for Heywood & Middleton. Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff KG, PC (born 27 March 1912), was Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979. Callaghan was the son of a Royal Navy Chief Pe in 1977, becoming a byword for youthful dynamism. He went on to become joint author of the Vance-Owen Peace Plan to settle the conflict in Bosnia in 19921992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday. Events January January The Internet Society is formed. January 1 Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General January 1 George H. Bush becomes the fi, but its failure, and accusations of being an apologist for genocideGenocide has been defined as the deliberate killing of people based on their ethnicity, nationality, race, religion, or (sometimes) politics, as well as other deliberate actions leading to the physical elimination of any of the above categories. There is led to his forced resignation in 19951995 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). It has a Golden number of 1, and was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995- 2005): http://www. org/culture/indigenous . Events January events Ja.
He is now leader of the No CampaignThe No Campaign is a Eurosceptic group in Britain that campaigns against adoption of the single currency. External links . which campaigns against British membership of the EuroThe euro ISO 4217 code EUR is the currency of twelve of the twenty-five nations that form the European Union (and four outside it, as well as Montenegro and Kosovo), which form the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). It is the result of the most significan, and a life peer (Baron Owen), who sits in the House of LordsThis article is about the British House of Lords. See also the historical Irish House of Lords. The House of Lords is a component of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also includes the Sovereign and the British House of Commons. The House of Lor as a crossbencher. Though he has remained an independent since the dissolution of the SDP, he endorsed John Major in the 1992 general election and indicated he would be willing to serve in Major's cabinet, but not to join the Conservative Party. Major did not entertain this suggestion.
On August 17, 2003, just after Idi Amin's death, Lord Owen told an interviewer for BBC Radio 4 that while he was Foreign Secretary he had suggested the assassination of Amin to his cabinet colleagues in order to end his terror regime. His proposal was seen as an outrageous suggestion and rejected. Owen said "Amin's regime was the worst of all. It's a shame that we allowed him to keep in power for so long."
| Preceded by: Anthony Crosland | Foreign Secretary 1977–1979 | Followed by: The Lord Carrington |