Word: thatcherism
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Although London's Fulham is one of the smallest election districts in Britain, last week's by-election there was hailed by many as the most important of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's seven years in power. With unemployment in Fulham running at 13%, and many people outraged by a recent government decision to increase pensions by only 55 cents a week, the Conservatives seemed likely to take a beating. Few were surprised, therefore, when Labor's Nick Raynsford won the seat handily. It was Labor's most impressive by- election victory since Thatcher first came to power...
...bodies of three Westerners were found Thursday near Beirut. A note with the bodies said the three had been slain in retaliation for English Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's decision to allow the U.S. bombers that attacked Libya to fly from British bases...
This enterprise is more troublesome than it might seem, however, because the setting is Maggie Thatcher's Britain. The plot moves along as Omar encounters the racist tensions and youthful frustrations of the fair Queen's city, which threaten to rise above the surface and destroy the young Pakistani's sweet dreams...
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has denounced it as a "uniquely barbaric act." Lord Chief Justice Lord Lane says the trend is an "incredible perversion." Indeed, many Britons, who have long regarded their country as a citadel of order and civility, were shocked at the findings of a recent government report showing that in 1985 the incidence of rape increased by 29% in England and Wales. Worse, it climbed by 56% in the City of London. One cynical police official called rape Britain's "biggest growth industry...
European reaction to the Reagan plan was generally favorable, with some misgivings. Said one West German arms control expert: "It speaks well for the credibility of the Americans that they were ready to listen to their European allies." British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government supported Reagan's plan but insisted that any agreement on nuclear missiles include two shorter-range tactical Soviet missiles--the SS-21 and SS-22--that are stationed in Eastern Europe. Thatcher is unwilling at the moment to abandon plans to modernize the British force with new Trident II (D-5) submarine- launched nuclear missiles...