Word: margarete
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...most dramatic episodes ever to take place during a British Cabinet meeting, Defense Minister Michael Heseltine stormed out of 10 Downing Street last week and resigned. Heseltine was angry over Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's refusal to ensure that the country's only helicopter manufacturer, troubled Westland (1985 losses: $137 million), would remain entirely in European hands. Connecticut-based United Technologies Corp., which owns the helicopter maker Sikorsky, has together with Italy's Fiat offered $105 million for a 29.9% share in Westland...
...chinks in the Iron Lady's political armor were growing wider each day. What began last fall as a relatively minor issue, the fate of an ailing British helicopter manufacturer, had ballooned into one of the severest tests for Margaret Thatcher in her nearly seven years as Prime Minister. The controversy has already prompted the angry resignation of Defense Minister Michael Heseltine and threatened to force the ouster of Trade and Industry Minister Leon Brittan. In the House of Commons last week, amid charges of high-level deceit and manipulation, Thatcher's critics turned the debate into a full-scale...
...federal budget and close the gaping deficit, the House agreed by voice vote to send $250 million over the next five years to Northern Ireland. The money will go into an international economic-support fund established under an Anglo-Irish agreement signed last year by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her Irish counterpart Garret Fitz-Gerald to give Catholics more of a voice in the affairs of Northern Ireland. The aid proposal allied two politicians who share Irish ancestry but rarely see eye to eye: Ronald Reagan and House Speaker Tip O'Neill. "As you know, the President...
...unwillingness of the French and Spanish to let American F-111s pass through their airspace on the long flight to Libya puts the U.S. on notice that it can no longer routinely count on allied support for its military adventures. It is by no means certain that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, besieged at home for permitting the F-111s to fly from air bases in Britain, would be so accommodating a second time around. That would leave only U.S. carriers to back Reagan's words with force...
...fact that the Western allies presented an almost united front. Only one week earlier, when Washington mounted a nighttime air strike on Libya, its most devastating bombing attack since Viet Nam, the U.S. had been actively supported by none of its European friends except British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Rifts in the alliance still remain, as evidenced by the European Community's refusal to close the People's Bureaus altogether, which Washington and London had urged (see following story). Nonetheless, the diplomatic assault on Libyans suggested that these differences are not insurmountable. "People have been coming to share our views...