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While there was no disagreement at the meeting about the idea of sending Haig abroad, there were differences of opinion over the tone that the U.S. should adopt during the mission. U.N. Ambassador Kirkpatrick, a guest at the session, argued strongly that the U.S. should respect the sensitivities of the nationalistic Argentines. Her repeated point: the U.S. must not allow the Falklands issue to undermine the American interest in building a common anti-Communist front among Latin Americans...
Lord Carrington took the criticism to heart. Prior to the emergency Commons session, he had told Thatcher of his intention to resign. The amiable and popular Foreign Secretary, who earned worldwide admiration for his 1979 negotiation of an end to the Rhodesian civil war, was unafraid of political criticism but felt strongly that his resignation was a matter of honor. Thatcher and Deputy Tory Leader William Whitelaw tried hard over the April
...Iraq was barely mentioned in the public sessions, aside from a few perfunctory Islamic calls for immediate U.S. withdrawal. It was a different story in the private conversations in the corridors. "Obama and Hillary Clinton can't be serious about leaving Iraq in 12 to 16 months," a well-informed Jordanian said to me. "If you do that, there will be chaos. The Turks will attack the north. The Iranians will take over the south." I pointed out that the same may or may not be true if we leave in 10 ... or 100 years, as John McCain has defiantly...
...event also featured a performance by the Harvard Wushu Club, a panel discussion between students from both China and Harvard, and a question-and-answer session with the audience...
...often meeting with a small group of Cabinet ministers. On Thursdays at 10:30, there is a full Cabinet session, with Mrs. Thatcher at the center of the boat-shaped table. She hurries the ministers briskly along, rarely allowing any departures from the agenda. When Parliament is in session, she spends the mornings with her staff readying for question time, that twice-weekly exercise in which the Prime Minister fields queries, and often insults, from opposition M.P.s. A cook is brought in on question days to prepare what Thatcher calls "good nursery food" (shepherd's pie, or perhaps a stew...