Word: thatcherism
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Sometime during his ten-day visit, Reagan will surely have kind words to say about the West European allies' resolve in deploying the new Euromissiles. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens, Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher have all accepted the NATO weapons on their soil, despite heavy pressure from the peace movement. Allied solidarity has been further strengthened by the near unanimous Western rejection of Gorbachev's recent offer to "freeze" the missile balance in Europe at current levels, which greatly favor the Soviet Union...
Again and again, reported Conte, Gorbachev urged America to deal with the world as it exists and not to attempt to reshape the Soviet Union. "If the evil empire exists," he said, "let it exist." He also repeated what he said he had told Mrs. Thatcher during his visit to Britain last December: "I have no hope of turning you into a Marxist," implying that his listeners had no hope of turning him into a non-Marxist...
Viewers were first shown NBC's original 2½-minute profile of Mikhail Gorbachev, based largely on the new Soviet leader's euphoric reception in Britain last December: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher saying she could do business with him; former Defense Minister Denis Healey finding Gorbachev like a "Western intellectual, a poet." Then came Dolan's version: ominous shots of Soviet troops parading and an overlong interview with Republican Senator Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire, who believes that so long as there is fighting in Afghanistan, there should be no talking at Geneva. (Secretary of State George Shultz, who in committee...
...Union avoid another damaging bout of budget paralysis? That's the big question following last week's E.U. summit in Brussels, at which French President Jacques Chirac questioned why Britain should continue to receive a €4 billion annual rebate on its payments. In 1984, then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher won the rebate for Britain by demanding: "I want my money back", and holding up E.U. business for months until she got it. E.U. leaders are supposed to fix a new budget framework this year for 2007-2013, and already there's disagreement over whether to increase the current...
DIED. JAMES CALLAGHAN, 92, British Prime Minister whose mild manners came to be viewed as complacency during his three-year tenure, which was beset by a series of labor strikes in the late 1970s, and helped usher rival Margaret Thatcher into office; in East Sussex, south of London...