Word: thatcherism
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...inquiry into the government's handling of the Westland affair was subsequently defeated by a vote of 370 to 217. Later in the week, Westland's board failed to muster the 75% shareholder approval needed to accept the Sikorsky bid. The biggest loser in the whole affair was clearly Thatcher: a Gallup poll published last week gave her Conservative Party only a 29.5% approval rating, its poorest standing since...
Otherwise, they brood. Into their study every morning parade the armies of the news. A knock on the door, and there stands Heseltine resigning from Mrs. Thatcher's Cabinet, Marcos on the stump, Gaddafi playing cowboy on his tractor, mummied to the nose. Come in, boys. The columnist will make sense of all this somehow. After the reporters and the editors have dumped the facts on the doorstep, the columnist, like a jigsaw addict, scoops up the pieces, studies the angles, mulls, clears his throat and says, with as much self-assurance as possible: This piece goes here, and this...
...federal budget and close the gaping deficit, the House agreed by voice vote to send $250 million over the next five years to Northern Ireland. The money will go into an international economic-support fund established under an Anglo-Irish agreement signed last year by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her Irish counterpart Garret Fitz-Gerald to give Catholics more of a voice in the affairs of Northern Ireland. The aid proposal allied two politicians who share Irish ancestry but rarely see eye to eye: Ronald Reagan and House Speaker Tip O'Neill. "As you know, the President...
...French and Spanish to let American F-111s pass through their airspace on the long flight to Libya puts the U.S. on notice that it can no longer routinely count on allied support for its military adventures. It is by no means certain that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, besieged at home for permitting the F-111s to fly from air bases in Britain, would be so accommodating a second time around. That would leave only U.S. carriers to back Reagan's words with force...
...fact that the Western allies presented an almost united front. Only one week earlier, when Washington mounted a nighttime air strike on Libya, its most devastating bombing attack since Viet Nam, the U.S. had been actively supported by none of its European friends except British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Rifts in the alliance still remain, as evidenced by the European Community's refusal to close the People's Bureaus altogether, which Washington and London had urged (see following story). Nonetheless, the diplomatic assault on Libyans suggested that these differences are not insurmountable. "People have been coming to share our views...