Word: thatcherism
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Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has often proclaimed that terrorists must be deprived of the "oxygen of publicity." Last week she tried to cut off the air supply of the Irish Republican Army by banning radio and television interviews with members of the outlawed guerrilla group and its political arm, Sinn Fein (including Gerry Adams, the party's sole representative in Parliament). The action, which also applied to some Protestant extremist groups, marked the most sweeping British censorship decision since World War II. The Republic of Ireland has maintained a similar ban since...
Most Obvious Name-Dropping. Quayle's assertion that Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany and Britain's Margaret Thatcher "know" him. He has met each only once, and for no longer than a few minutes...
...reforming the party and making it electable again -- mainly by forsaking the goal of wholesale nationalizations. Then he delivered a confident, well- applauded speech in which he called on Labor to come to terms with the "fact of the market economy." He sought to seize the initiative from Margaret Thatcher's Tory government with his emphasis on environmental issues, individualism and competitiveness. When Kinnock insisted that no "slide to the right" was involved, leftwing Laborites growled, but were shouted down by the moderate majority...
...government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was meanwhile coping with a potential embarrassment of its own, in the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Last week a coroner's inquest opened into the March 6 killing of another three-member I.R.A. team by a squad from the British army's antiterrorist Special Air Services regiment. The inquest is expected to last a month and hear testimony from more than 70 witnesses, including seven SAS members who were involved in the killings. The seven, identified only as Soldiers A through G, will testify from behind a curtain in the witness box, within...
...heart of the investigation are allegations that Britain has been conducting a shoot-to-kill policy against the I.R.A. Thatcher denies the charge, insisting that the security forces operate within the law and follow the same rules of engagement that prevailed during the Falklands war. "You obviously set certain criteria and let the people operate within them," she said...