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Despite their attempts to moderate the public spat with Washington, Thatcher and Schmidt still hoped to change U.S. policy. The British Prime Minister instructed Secretary for Trade Lord Cockfield to give notice that Britain is prepared to defy the Reagan sanctions in order to enable British companies to complete $200 million worth of Soviet orders for the huge natural-gas project. Said Thatcher to the Commons: "The question is whether one very powerful nation can prevent existing contracts being fulfilled. I think it is wrong to do that." In the same spirit, Schmidt announced that "like our European partners...
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