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...century later, despite Britain's belated entry into the European Community in 1973, the effects of the country's psychological detachment were still on display last week when Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's go-it-alone refusal to join the rest of the European Community in plans for political and monetary union prompted the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Howe. Ignoring his gentle nudgings toward greater European cooperation, Thatcher declared, "In my view, we have surrendered enough...
Unlike Britain's Margaret Thatcher or Israel's Golda Meir, Aquino, Bhutto and Chamorro claimed power not through proven political skills but on the strength and symbolism of their family ties. For much of the Third World, the idea of the nation-state has not evolved too far from the idea of kingdoms; rulers are still heads of extended tribes or vast families, rather than chief executives of the machinery of government. Politics very often pits clan against clan, all the way from Machiavellian patriarchs to the wives and daughters, whose chief duty is still procreation and the maintenance...
Even where it has long been entrenched, democracy has not proved invariably hospitable to women. Despite the growing number of women entering politics in the U.S., the country is just beginning the journey toward full equality. In the West, women like British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Brundtland have had to struggle against the traditional demands of gender in order to impress their visions on national policies. For decades the Communist states of Europe boasted of political egalitarianism, making a show of filling token government posts with women. But revolution has torn down the facades...
...Does the criticism of longtime friends like Thatcher and Bush disturb...
...Thatcher remains alone in her unyielding hostility to the very concept of a supranational Europe. She was pushed into joining the EMS by a series of compelling domestic reasons, not least the prospect of an election within the next year and a half. The European monetary link, for example, will make it easier to reduce Britain's double-digit inflation rate. Sterling, already a petrocurrency at a time of soaring oil prices, will become even stronger. Pressure on Thatcher intensified also from other European capitals as the process of German unification reached its climax this month. In effect, Britain...