Word: thatcherism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DEIDESHEIM, West Germany--Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain failed yesterday to persuade Chancellor Helmut Kohl to drop his demand that the superpowers begin talks soon on cutting short-range nuclear missiles...
...still have quite a lot of work to do," Kohl told reporters during a news conference with Thatcher after an afternoon of talks...
...Thatcher also expressed optimism, but stuck strongly to the U.S. British position that rules out early talks with the Soviets on short-range nuclear weapons...
Ironically, it was in London that Gorbachev's new thinking achieved its greatest success of the week. Despite serious disagreements over policy during their fifth get-together, Margaret Thatcher and Gorbachev still seemed devoted to their mutual admiration society. Their talks, cooed the Iron Lady, were "very deep, very wide ranging and very friendly." Grinning from ear to ear, Gorbachev enthused that their "mutual understanding is increasing." So much so that Queen Elizabeth even accepted an invitation to visit the U.S.S.R., a historic royal acknowledgment of the distance between Gorbachev and the Bolsheviks who murdered her Romanov cousins...
...equipped to carry nuclear-armed cruise missiles. Soviet military spokesmen refused to say whether any such weapons were aboard, but Moscow acted quickly to try to dispel international concerns. Only hours after returning home from London, Mikhail Gorbachev sent reassuring messages to President Bush, British Prime Minister Thatcher and Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland. The power plant on the stricken sub had been shut down before the vessel sank, declared Gorbachev, who added, "The possibility of a nuclear explosion and radioactive pollution of the environment is excluded...