Word: thatcherism
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...favorite terrorist -- and what the cost would be. Military bases went on alert in Italy, where Lampedusa Island was the target of an amateurish Libyan missile attack after the U.S. bombing of Tripoli in 1986. Britain supported the U.S. assertion that Rabta is intended for weapons production, but the Thatcher government urged Washington not to attack it. The French, who are host to the chemical-weapons conference at UNESCO headquarters, were irritated. The sharpest criticism came from the leftist Paris daily Liberation: "Gaddafi has lost two planes, but Reagan hasn't necessarily won out. These two were made to detest...
...James Whyte, head of the Church of Scotland, spoke for a horrified world. At a memorial service in Lockerbie last week, he condemned last month's bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 as an act of "human wickedness" and "cold and calculated evil." With Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and some 100 relatives of U.S. victims among the mourners, Whyte said those responsible must be brought to justice, but cautioned, "The uncovering of the truth will not be easy, and evidence that would stand up in a court of law may be hard to obtain...
While the acrid smoke still hung over Lockerbie, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visited the scene, as did Prince Andrew, the Duke of York. The sight was extraordinary in the daylight: the cockpit resting near a church cemetery, Christmas presents never to be delivered scattered on the ground, sheep grazing in one field and policemen looking for bodies in the next. "One has never seen or thought to see anything like this," said Thatcher, visibly moved by the horror...
Persistent as ever, Thatcher, Mitterrand, Mubarak and Hussein were back on the White House telephones urging Reagan to reassess the speech. Using a colorful metaphor, Mubarak told Shultz that Arafat had already taken off his shirt and that the U.S. was asking for his trousers...
...Yasser Arafat is not like talking to Mikhail Gorbachev. During the past three years, in word and deed, Gorbachev has earned the West's cautious trust. The INF treaty, the recent announcement of planned unilateral reductions in Soviet conventional forces, the removal of old-line naysayers suggest, in Margaret Thatcher's words, that Gorbachev is a man with whom "we can do business...