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...maybe a year" and finishing the reductions by 1992 sounds like a pipe dream. Never mind that the estimated $1 billion in potential savings doesn't measurably reduce the U.S. defense budget or redress the "burden-sharing" problem among the allies. Never mind even that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl still disagree over the alliance's nuclear future...
...wonder Thatcher hesitated at Bush's timetable. "I think it's a little bit optimistic," she said. "It's quite optimistic. It's very optimistic...
...Bush, along with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, is convinced that rushing into missile negotiations with the Soviets before a conventional-arms pact is struck would be a mistake. But West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has been pressing for a quick start to missile talks to shore up his shaky domestic political position...
Half a world away, Britain watched the strife in China with acute concern. Nonetheless, the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher intends to uphold its pledge to return Hong Kong to Chinese rule. "We cannot back away from the 1984 agreement," said a senior British diplomat. "We have signed it, and we are committed to it." Said another high official: "Once the situation settles down in China, it could be for the better. If the reformers do come out on top, that would be more promising for Hong Kong's future." By week's end, however, the liberal reformers appeared...
Although Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ridiculed the announcement as "unilateralism in a different wrapping," she stood to lose a valuable advantage: an opposition wedded to policies that guaranteed its remaining in opposition. As Tony Blair, 36, Labor's spokesman on energy and one of its rising stars, emphasized, "The changes simply had to come. We couldn't continue to live in the past...