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Fallingbostel, West Germany Sept. 29, 1986 Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was taking no flak last week as she fired a round from a Challenger tank at the nato training ground [where she was visiting British forces]. Decked out in stout walking shoes, flowing scarf and goggles, Thatcher looked like a "cross between Isadora Duncan and Lawrence of Arabia," as the Daily Telegraph affectionately put it. With the help of a few tips from the 1945-1955 The decade after 1945 saw jubilation at the arrival of peace, and anxiety as the Cold War took shape — and a wedding took...
...education. Her chief strategist has a grim assessment of what Hillary is up against on that front. The country may be ready for a woman President, Bill has privately told friends, but the first one to make it is more likely to be a Republican in the Margaret Thatcher mold...
...Conservative Party—meaning, over the rims of teacups and stacks of photocopies—it seems the moderates have won the war for the heart of the Tory party. So-called “wets,” once thought vanquished by the hard-right Lady Thatcher, have had the last laugh since the arrival of Cameron.Of course, this is an over-simplification. Even moderates have been shaped by the Thatcher revolution. Today’s “Cameron-conservatives”, however, are kinder, gentler Conservatives—the kind you wouldn?...
...code of ethics has been put to the test several times in the past, most notably during the 1980s, when several Irish Republican Army prisoners staged hunger strikes in British prisons. A handful died, and the episode was seen as evidence of Margaret Thatcher's toughness. At Gitmo, however, the death of a prisoner could ignite riots in the Muslim world. In that context, the Pentagon believes that keeping detainees alive at all costs is very much in the nation's security interest...
...deep. Rory, a student in his fourth year (students' last names are being withheld at the school's request), still regrets answering honestly on a transatlantic flight when his seatmate asked where he went to school. "For six hours he kept making snide remarks," he says. Douglas Hurd, Margaret Thatcher's Foreign Secretary, wrote in his memoir that his family believed "that if I had not gone to Eton I would have become Prime Minister in 1990." (That was the year that the Conservative Party opted instead for John Major, who attended Rutlish Grammar School in south London...