Word: scotland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Associate Editor Jim Kelly got out on the hustings in Britain before returning to New York to write the main cover story Traveling for two days with the Prime Minister through Scotland and the Manchester area, Kelly noted one other major difference from American politics I was amazed by how close anyone and every one could get to Thatcher," he says. "She had few security people, and they kept at a distance At 1 one stop, a bakery, a couple of dozen demonstrators were shouting only a few yards away from her black Jaguar...
...party strategists hastily planned logistics and mapped schedules, all the political leaders decided to kick off the campaign in Scotland. Liberal Party Leader David Steel, the S.D.P.'s Roy Jenkins and Labor's Foot planned to be in Glasgow. Thatcher happened to have a speaking engagement at the Scottish Conservative Party conference in Perth. With all the polls showing the Prime Minister so far ahead, her biggest concern was complacency. As she told a gathering of Tory M.P.s last week, "Opinion polls do not win elections. Work does...
...call a general election for next month, al most a year before her five-year term runs out. Thatcher was mum on the subject, so the nation looked for omens, above all in local elections that took place last Thursday in every part of the country except London and Scotland...
...former archivist of the Nazi Party, August Priesack, last year offered Irving 800 photostats of Nazi documents, including parts of a diary supposedly kept by Hitler and a letter from Rudolf Hess to Hitler about his projected 1941 flight to Scotland. Irving brought 400 pages to Britain, but after scrutinizing them pronounced them forgeries. Irving now believes that the Stern 1930s and those he studied last year came from the same source, though he had earlier considered the Stern material to be authentic...
...four great occasions when Nicklaus and Watson have looked each other in the eye-the 1977 Masters; the British Open that year at Turnberry, Scotland; the 1981 Masters; and last year at Pebble Beach-it has always been Jack who blinked. At Turnberry, their epic confrontation, Nicklaus finished 65-66 with a stouthearted 40-ft. putt spoiled by Watson's 65-65 and a stately seven-iron shot that settled lightly by the last hole. Squeezing Tom's arm-Watson is rather diminutive, 5 ft. 9 in., but the arms are parts off a larger man-Nicklaus told...