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...government of Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is planning to replace Britain's fleet of four Polaris nuclear submarines, which will become obsolete in the late 1990s, with larger and faster Trident missile subs at a cost of more than $12 billion. Owen opposes buying the U.S.-built replacements on grounds of cost and excessive dependence on Washington. At their party conference in Harrogate two weeks ago, the Social Democrats called for a coordinated European defense effort, including possible Anglo-French "collaboration" on a joint nuclear deterrent. The Liberal leadership warmly endorsed the resolution, which also urged renunciation of Britain...
...issue is anything but academic. Thatcher is widely expected to call elections well before the mid-1988 deadline, probably some time next year. While she will have the advantage of setting the date, the Labor Party has consistently led in the polls for the past nine months. Last week's Liberal- Social Democratic rift over defense policy may have helped the Tories, who stand to profit more than Labor from centrist confusion. Kinnock's resurgent party nonetheless remains a formidable opponent...
Admirers and critics alike have dubbed her the "Iron Lady," but who knew that PM also stood for perfect marksman? Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was taking no flak last week as she fired a round from a Challenger tank at the NATO training ground near Fallingbostel, West Germany. She and West German + Chancellor Helmut Kohl were making their first joint visit to British forces stationed in the area. Decked out in stout walking shoes, flowing scarf and goggles, Thatcher looked like a "cross between Isadora Duncan and Lawrence of Arabia," as the Daily Telegraph affectionately put it. With the help...
There was perhaps a touch of contrivance in the drama of Egyptian Prime Minister Ali Lutfi flying home last week from London, where he had met with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, to preside over a midnight Cabinet meeting to approve the Taba agreement. But it was a welcome change from the grim tales of hijacking, kidnaping and wanton murder that so regularly emanate from the region. If nothing else, the Taba agreement and the Alexandria summit demonstrated that even in the Middle East, common sense can sometimes...
...Tokyo press, she is the Japanese Thatcher. To the Japan Socialist Party, the country's largest opposition force, she is simply the leader. Takako Doi, 57, gained that role last week when the Socialists elected her party chairman. A seven-term member of the Diet, or national parliament, Doi became the first Japanese woman to head a major political party...