Word: queene
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...British sovereignty and institutions in the Falklands has steadily hardened during the war. For the 1,800 Falklanders, she now favors a form of self-government just short of independence. In effect, the Falklands would cease to be a British colony and become a protectorate of the British Crown. Queen Elizabeth II would be represented by a High Commissioner with responsibility for defense and foreign affairs, who would govern with a six-member executive committee drawn from an elected legislative assembly of 20 to 30 members...
...Queen Elizabeth may have been put off by the extreme security precautions enveloping Reagan's trip. For instance, her aides refused a request that U.S. stewards watch over preparation of the President's food. Other hosts were miffed too. In Rome, Spadolini was kept by U.S. security men from going through the tight cordon outside the Palazzo Chigi until Italian police could finally inform them that the gentleman they were holding up from a meeting with Reagan was the Prime Minister of Italy. In Bonn, U.S. security men annoyed the Germans by insisting on inspecting the carbines...
...Britain the President and Queen Elizabeth graciously joked about her forebear George III, who, she said, "played a seemingly disastrous role" in our affairs some 200 years back. When Reagan went to view the Berlin Wall, the gesture evoked more memories, this time of Kennedy, 19 Junes ago, when millions of besieged West Berliners cheered and wept as he drove through their midst and finally shouted his challenge, now etched deeply in history: "Ich bin ein Berliner...
...insisted that "if the Argentines tell us that they are prepared to withdraw, we shall enable them to do so with safety, dignity and dispatch." Otherwise, she said, "we shall now have to take back by force what the Argentines would not give up." Even Britain's monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, whose second son, Prince Andrew, is a helicopter pilot aboard the aircraft carrier Invincible, made a rare and direct comment on the issue. Using the banquet at Windsor Castle for President Ronald Reagan as the occasion, she personally denounced "naked aggression" in the Falklands. In the port...
...South Atlantic. Opposition Leader Michael Foot renewed his standing plea that the government try once again to reach a negotiated settlement through the U.N. The most passionate argument against continued fighting came from Labor M.P. Leo Abse, who asked in Commons that Thatcher "stop playing at being a warrior queen...