Francis Pym, 86, an antagonist of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who served as her foreign secretary during the Falklands War, died Friday after a long illness, his family said.
Pym served as defense secretary in Thatcher’s first term as prime minister. In 1982, he was elevated to foreign secretary during the Falkland Islands war after the resignation of Peter Carrington. Thatcher fired Pym after winning the 1983 election, and he became increasingly critical of her policies.
Thatcher’s biographer, the late Hugo Young, had described Pym as “perhaps the most perfect epitome of the kind of Conservative politician Mrs. Thatcher detested.” He was a pro-European moderate, one of the so-called “wets” she disparaged, and a critic of the government’s economic policies. But as foreign secretary, he gave crucial support during the most difficult days of her three terms.
“During the war, on numerous testing occasions, his parade-ground bark and military bearing produced a more incisive appearance than some of the prime minister’s own appearances,” Young wrote.
Leonard Rosenman, 83, a film and television composer who won two Oscars and two Emmys during his 50-year Hollywood career, has died.
Rosenman died Tuesday of a heart attack at his home at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, Calif., said family friend Jon Burlingame.
Rosenman won back-to-back Academy Awards in 1975 and 1976 for his work on “Barry Lyndon” and “Bound for Glory.” He was nominated twice more for his scores for “Cross Creek” in 1983 and “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home” in 1986. He won Emmys for his TV-movie scores for “Sybil” in 1976 and “Friendly Fire” in 1979.
Leon Greenman, 97, the only Englishman sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, died Friday, London’s Jewish Museum said.
Greenman was born in London in 1910 and was living in the Netherlands with his Dutch wife and young son when it was occupied by the Nazis, who sent the family to Auschwitz in 1943.
His wife, Esther, and 3-year-old son, Barney, died at Auschwitz, but Greenman was freed from the Buchenwald camp in April 1945 by the U.S. 3rd Army. He dedicated his life to telling the public about the horrors of the six camps where he was held. He never remarried, the museum said on its website.
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