A Fortunate Life (72 page)
- Qassim, General Abdul,
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- Quant, Mary,
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- Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANCs),
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- Queen Mary,
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- Queen’s birthday party,
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- Question Time,
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- Rabin, Yitzhak,
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- Radfan mountains, Aden,
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- Radley, Sally,
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- Radley, Steve,
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- Radio Malt,
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- Radosavljević, Sandra,
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- RAF,
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- RAF Abingdon,
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- RAF Chivenor,
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- RAF Machrihanish,
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- Rahman, Luthfur,
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- Raikes, Canon Myles,
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- Rame Head,
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- Rathfriland,
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- rattan,
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- Rawalpindi,
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- Rectory Printing Society,
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- Red Lion
pub, Westminster,
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- Reeve, Mr,
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- Reform Club,
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- religion,
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- Rendel, David,
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- Rennard, Chris,
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- Republika Srpska,
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- Repulse Bay,
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- Ribble Valley,
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- Rice, Condoleezza,
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- Richmond, Yorkshire,
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- Ricketts, Sir Peter,
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- Rifkind, Malcolm,
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- Robertson, George,
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- ‘Rock Around the Clock’ (Bill Haley and the Comets),
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- Rodgers, Bill,
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- Rogers, Budge,
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- Rolling Stones,
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- Rolls, Ricky,
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- Roman hill forts,
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- Rose and Crown pub,
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- Ross, Stephen,
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- Rouen Cathedral,
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- Rowntree Trust,
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- Royal Aeronautical College,
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- Royal Engineers,
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- Royal Indian Army Service Corps,
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- Royal Marines
see also
SBS appointed officer,
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- Ashdown leaves,
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2
- Ashdown’s pledge,
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- ballons d’essai,
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- being rude at breakfast,
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- berets,
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- drill sergeants,
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- joins,
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- migraines,
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- naval terminology,
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- nightcraft techniques,
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- ‘Paddy’ Ashdown,
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- ‘Ram’ Seeger,
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- specialist wings,
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- sense of confidence and,
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- units,
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- Walter Walker and,
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- weapons training,
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- Royal Naval College, Dartmouth,
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- Royal Navy,
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- Royal Navy Mark
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- torpedoes,
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- Royden Court,
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- Rugova, Ibrahim,
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- Russell, Jane,
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- Russell, Janet,
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- Russia,
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- Sabah,
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- Sai Wan listening station,
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- Sainsbury, David,
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- Saint-Gervais-les-Bains,
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- Sam Browne belts,
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- Sanders, Adrian,
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- Sandhurst,
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- Sarajevo,
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- Bosnian Serb assault repulsed,
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- carsia,
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- email selection from,
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- Iraq and,
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- Karadžić,
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- main street,
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- plaque for 1st World War assassination,
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- street life,
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- Sarajevo Haggadah,
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- Sarawak,
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- Sardeeyah,
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- Sarkozy, Nicholas,
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- SAS,
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- Sava, Father,
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- Sava River,
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- Savoie,
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- SBS (Special Boat Section, Royal Marines),
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- see also
Royal Marines Blondie Haslar,
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- decides to join,
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- No. 2 SBS,
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- operation procedures,
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- radicalised by,
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- radio sets,
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- ‘Ram’ Seeger,
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- recommended for,
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- Singapore,
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- skills and courage of,
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- training course,
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- underwater work,
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- School Cadet Force,
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- School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS),
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- Scott Report,
1
- Screaming Lord Sutch,
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- SDP
- creation of,
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- ‘dead parrot’ draft leak,
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- Liberal deal with,
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- merger,
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- modern image of,
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- New Labour and,
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- 1985 Conference,
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- Richmond,
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- votes for merger,
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2
- sea snakes,
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- secretaries,
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- Sedgefield,
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- Seeger, ‘Ram’,
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- Serbia,
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2
- attacks on Kosovars,
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- Bosnian Serbs,
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- effect of US bombing on,
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- flashpoint,
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- Mladić,
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- mooted invasion,
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- Sarajevo offensive,
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2
- Setkić, Ahmed,
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- Setkić, Sebiŝa,
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- Seventh Submarine Squadron,
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- Shakespeare, William,
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- Shanghai,
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- Shankhill Road,
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- sharks,
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- Sharp, Richard,
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- Shaw, George Bernard,
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- Sheffield,
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- Shoesmith, Colour Sergeant,
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- shooting,
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- Sikorsky,
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- Silicon Valley,
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- Simla,
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- Singapore Christmas in,
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- geckoes alarm service wives,
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- Jane falls ill,
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- Pulau Tioman,
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- Seventh Submarine Squadron,
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- ship attack exercise incident,
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- Simon born,
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- Special Boat Units,
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- Sirius computers,
1
- skiing,
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- Skinner, Quentin,
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- Skopje,
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- Slim, Field Marshal ‘Bill’,
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- Slipman, Sue,
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- Sloss, Bob,
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- Slovenia,
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- SLR 7.62 rifles,
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- Smith, Cyril,
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- Smith, John,
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- Smith, Sir Rupert,
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- smuggling,
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- Snitterfield, Vicar of,
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- SOE (Special Operations Executives),
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- Sofer, Anne,
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- Solana, Javier,
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- soldier ants,
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- Somerset County Council,
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- Somerset Levels,
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- Somerton,
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- South Eastern Railways,
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- South Somerset District Council,
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- Spanish Armada,
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- Spanish Civil War,
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- Speakman, Nick,
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- Special Branch,
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- Special Forces,
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- Spectator,
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- Spitfires,
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- Spitting Image,
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- Split,
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- split infinitives,
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- sport,
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- Spurling, Neville,
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- Srebrenica,
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- St Cergue,
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- St Mary the Virgin, Norton sub Hamdon,
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- St Pancras Station,
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- Stabilisation Force (SFOR),
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- Standard Ten motor cars,
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- Star Ferry terminal,
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- START (Strategic Arms Reduction Talks),
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- ‘Starting the Journey’ (Paddy Ashdown),
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- Stass,
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- State Opera, Vienna,
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- Staunton, Sir George (great-grand-uncle),
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- Steel, David appoints Ashdown,
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- Ashdown embarrasses,
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- Ashdown supported by,
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- attacked by other Liberal MPs,
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- David Owen and,
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- first Party Conference as leader,
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- freeze on nuclear deployment called for,
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- a good former leader,
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- Gulf War,
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- Kate Ashdown and,
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- Lib-Lab Pact,
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- naming the Liberal Democrats,
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- 1983 election campaign,
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- persuades Beith to join Ashdown,
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- Richard Holme,
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- sidelines Roy Jenkins,
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- stands down,
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- Steiner, George,
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- Stonecutter Island,
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- Stour, River,
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- Strachey, Sir Edward,
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- Strangford Lough,
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- Strathaird,
SS,
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- Straw, Jack,
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- Suharto, General,
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- Sukarno, General,
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- Sultan of Brunei,
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- Sulzberger, Cy,
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- Sun,
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- Sung dynasty,
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- survival,
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- Suva Reka,
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- Swanton, Miss,
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- Swimmer Canoeist Breathing Apparatus (SCBA),
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- Swimmer Canoeists Class Three (SC3s),
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- Swimmer Delivery Vehicles (SDVs),
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- Switzerland,
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- Swords and Ploughshares:
Bringing Peace to the 21st
Century
(Paddy Ashdown),
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- Symes, Fred,
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- Szechuan food,
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