Word: thatcherism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...principles Washington urges on them -- no negotiations with terrorists, no arms sales to Iran -- were not mollified by Reagan's many explanations. In Bonn, one official noted, "The Americans are still trying to stop such exports, and now we see what they do." In Britain, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, loyally backing the White House, heard shouts of "Reagan's poodle!" from Labor backbenchers. Her own Conservative Party went along with her support of the President only with the greatest reluctance. Said a senior Tory: "Let's face the fact that President Reagan seems to have lost all sense of reality...
Britain is America's ally, but that abstract agreement is brought to life by personification, by the friendship and ideological comradeship of Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Libya is America's enemy, but that enmity glowers as a private hostility between Reagan and Muammar Gaddafi. If the values of American initiative need commending, Reagan will shed his spotlight on a Mother Hale of Harlem, as he did in the 1985 State of the Union message, and elevate one woman to emblemize an entire economic and social theory. If heroism in war is to be honored, a single veteran will stand beside...
...comments were a touch disingenuous, since France has in fact been negotiating with Syria about French hostages held in Lebanon, but it was a sample of what the Administration can expect to hear in growing volume from its allies. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher frostily instructed her subordinates to refrain from inquiring about what the U.S. was up to in its dealings with Iran. She does not want to know. As if that did not indicate enough displeasure, a top British official called foreign reporters to a briefing at which he repeated that British policy is not to negotiate with...
...time of Kane and Abel (1979), Archer was out of debt and into fame. That brought him to the attention of Thatcher, who liked his novels and comeback success story. She tapped him for the party post, where he drew good crowds on the political circuit...
...faintheartedness on the Continent but publicly confined themselves to polite expressions of disappointment. Other reactions were more forceful. London's Daily Mail called the Europeans "jellyfish," while in the U.S. the Wall Street Journal titled its editorial on the subject "The Euro-Cowards." Snapped one disgusted senior Thatcher aide: "Either you're in the business of antiterrorism...