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...integration and getting its economic house in order. "We in the South have become so psychologically accustomed to partition that many people refuse to have anything to do with the North," says Garret Fitzgerald, the former Irish Prime Minister who worked out the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement with Margaret Thatcher. That pact gave Dublin a voice in negotiations over the fate of Northern Ireland and provided a new framework for discussing a settlement. But the momentum generated by the agreement has since stalled. "Both governments are to blame for the lack of progress," says Fitzgerald...
...MARGARET THATCHER...
...interview with The Washington Post, Clinton blamed Western Europe for the debacle, insinuating that Britain's Prime Minister John Major put his political future ahead of saving the Muslims. Major fired back by accusing Clinton of attacking him for political reasons. Margaret Thatcher finally had to step in to cool the boys down, reminding every-one of the importance of Anglo-American relations...
...British felt pretty good about themselves back in the '80s, what with victory in the Falklands and Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister. Now they are unhappy about what they don'thave: a thriving economy, job security, falling crime rates, ethnic harmony. No wonder a Gallup poll in July found that 54% feel their country is a snobbish, class-ridden society, 75% are convinced that the royal family lead indolent, jet-set lives, and only 3% predict that Britain will remain a world power in the next decade. Such responses may explain why, when asked if they would like to leavethe...
...open letter released last week, former Secretary of State George Shultz, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and nearly 100 other signers urged President Clinton to insist that nato make immediate air strikes against Serb planes and artillery and that the U.N. lift its arms embargo against the Bosnian Muslims. Responding to yet another breakdown of the Geneva peace talks, Clinton warned the Serbs and Croats once again that the military strike option was "still very much alive." Earlier in the week, Clinton said that under the right conditions, he would send almost 30,000 troops to Bosnia to help...