Word: thatcherism
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Administration officials were considering the options of putting a bounty on the hijackers' heads or planning some kind of retaliation. Washington had attempted to "isolate" Beirut airport with an international boycott. But only British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher expressed any sympathy for the proposal, and even she said she would take no action unless other West European nations went along. So far, none have. The Lebanese government, however, last week promised to tighten security at the airport...
...when their Arts Council grants were announced this spring, and the National's director, Peter Hall, temporarily closed his experimental Cottesloe stage. Some critics wondered if there might be a connection between the dispute and productions that have endorsed leftist views or attacked the conservatism of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The National's Pravda, for example, seems to say that the worst sin of Fleet Street is generosity toward Thatcher. The R.S.C.'s Today is a paean to men who abandoned their homes and families to fight as Communists in the Spanish Civil...
There was, take your seats please, actual convention business as well, and the hottest topic of the general sessions was international terrorism. In her keynote address at Royal Albert Hall, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher spoke angrily of a newly "fashionable heresy," that "if you feel sufficiently strongly about some particular issue, be it nuclear weapons, racial discrimination or animal liberation, you are entitled to claim superiority to the law and are therefore absolved." Thatcher argued that terrorists were increasingly active, in part, because news attention encouraged them. The P.M. told the lawyers, to repeated applause, that reporters should voluntarily refrain...
...days later, at a news conference before addressing a luncheon session at Grosvenor House, U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese picked up Thatcher's suggestion and said the Reagan Administration might soon begin discussions with the news media about whether their coverage of the hostage crisis was "helpful or hurtful from the standpoint of getting the crisis ended in a satisfactory manner." Meese carefully noted that the ability of the press to speak freely should be protected, but added, "There is an area of mutual good will on the part of the press and law enforcement authorities. There are areas where...
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has suffered several political setbacks this summer. Disaffection with her tight economic policies continues to grow, the Conservative Party limped in a distant third in a by-election last month, and Thatcher's approval rating has dropped to 34% in the most recent Gallup poll. But perhaps the cruelest blow came last week, when nearly 100 members of her party refused to back a Thatcher proposal to raise salaries for top government officials by as much as 46%. Both the Tory rebels and Labor opponents denounced the raises as insensitive, coming at a time when...