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...election is certain to speed Thatcher's efforts to reshape the political, economic and social fabric of Britain according to her firmly conservative views. Indeed, the votes had barely been counted last week when she announced a shake-up of her Cabinet. Ousted from his post as Foreign Secretary was Francis Pym, who had differed with Thatcher on a number of issues. His replacement is Sir Geoffrey Howe, who as Thatcher's Chancellor of the Exchequer proved himself a trusted instrument of her economic policies. Howe's successor at Treasury is Nigel Lawson, formerly Secretary of Energy and another loyal...
...Margaret Hilda Thatcher, 57, the grocer's daughter from Grantham, Lincolnshire, whose arrival at 10 Downing Street in 1979 was considered by many in her party to be a fluke. Emerging from far outside the ranks of the Tory Establishment and claiming only four years' experience in a minor Cabinet post (as Education Secretary in the early 1970s), Thatcher was virtually untutored in the art of governing, untested under fire. But in four years' time she earned the nickname "Iron Lady," as a tough, gritty leader who seemed to relish a good scrap. Her personality, in a sense, became government...
...manner of death" was summed up at the end of the 12-page autopsy: "Accident." But when he died, Cassidy had the contents of a locked medicine cabinet coursing through his body, powerful narcotics and other drugs like citalopram, hydromorphine, morphine and oxycodone, as well as methadone. The drugs--both the levels that Cassidy took and "their combined, synergistic actions," in the medical examiner's words--killed...
...they show to visitors. But Lincoln, I really would like to ask him about the issues of the Union, preserving the Union, slavery, how he was able to handle his political opponents. I mean, one of his opponents actually referred to him as monkey, and put them in the Cabinet. His most prominent members of his Cabinet were his most outspoken political opponents. It's remarkable. Just how he was able to find that within himself. And also, when the Civil War started, the pressures on him to try and hold the country together. If you think we have problems...
...button issue for Iraqis, thanks to incidents such as last September's shooting of 17 Iraqis by security guards from Blackwater USA and the Christmas Eve killing of a top Iraqi politician's bodyguard in 2006. In the wake of the September shootings, the Iraqi cabinet moved to revoke the U.S. decree giving the contractors immunity. Back-room diplomacy and high-profile reassurance has kept the contractors in place and still immune from prosecution...