Word: thatcherism
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...creature, the European Community. (To say nothing of the joining of the two Yemens this May.) Integrationists point to the E.C. as the wave of the future, the only hope for peace and prosperity on a planet already suffering from a surfeit of sovereignty. Self-styled realists like Margaret Thatcher, however, scoff at the notion of multinational union as rank Utopianism, a dangerous deviation from the natural human condition of group homogeneity and ethnic sovereignty...
...Britain last week the outlawed Irish Republican Army, as part of its stepped-up campaign beyond the borders of Northern Ireland, assassinated Ian Gow, a friend of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and a Conservative Member of Parliament, with a bomb that wrecked his Montego car in the driveway of his home. Three days earlier in West Germany, the Red Army Faction almost succeeded in killing Hans Neusel, State Secretary of the Interior Ministry and Bonn's top antiterrorist expert, in a similar attempt. The actions demonstrated that while their numbers may be dwindling, both the I.R.A. and the R.A.F...
...I.R.A.'s biggest score, though, was Gow, 53, Thatcher's parliamentary private secretary during her first four years in office and a passionate defender of Britain's constitutional ties to Northern Ireland. Although Gow's name was on a hit list of some 100 persons, the M.P. continued to give his address and number in the phone book. Under the cover of darkness, police deduced, a 4 1/2-lb. Semtex charge was attached to the bottom of Gow's auto while it was parked outside his 16th century home in the village of Hankham, in Sussex, 60 miles from London...
...written, "I have never found it easy to believe in God." Moreover, Carey strongly supports priesthood for women; he has even asked priests in Bath and Wells to consider resigning if they oppose women's ordination. His appointment, in fact, is read as a signal that church leaders and Thatcher's Tory government assume that women priests will get the go-ahead during the new Archbishop's reign. On the other hand, Carey counts as a traditionalist on homosexuality, but he has no objections to gay clergy who remain celibate...
Though no social gospeler, Carey is willing to speak occasionally on political issues. A staunch environmentalist who once said, "God is green," he scolded Thatcher this year when she took a swipe at the ecology movement, and he also criticized the Prime Minister's disputed poll tax. Thatcher nonetheless had no hesitation in giving him the nation's spiritual primacy, no doubt because she agrees with a preappointment editorial in the Economist that declared, "What is needed is an inspiring missionary leader for a church that has lost whatever grip it had on an increasingly pagan country." No bishop...