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...organization's continuing symbolic importance will be reaffirmed this week, when the largest gathering of world leaders in history--some 80 heads of state and government, including President Reagan, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain and Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of India --congregate at U.N. headquarters in New York City to honor the 40th anniversary of the ratification of the U.N. Charter. Reagan and about 25 other leaders are expected to sit down together on Wednesday at a diplomatically designed round table in the delegate lounge for what may be the ultimate power lunch. Throughout the week, the visiting potentates...
...events brought a quick response from Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party. At the Tories' annual conference in Blackpool, which opened two days after the Tottenham disturbance, Home Secretary Douglas Hurd proposed a law making the commission of a crime while carrying a firearm punishable by life imprisonment. The rioters and looters, Hurd declared, were motivated by "greed and the excitement of violence." In her speech to the delegates, Thatcher concurred, saying, "This is crime masquerading as social protest...
...clearly places Harvard on the long list of those groups in American society which oppose the bulk of the Administration's Just because it's an act of omission doesn't make it any less clear. Oxford did precisely the same thing last year by not granting Margaret Thatcher a similar honor, and all observers viewed the action as political in nature...
This baby also cops this week's edition of line of the year: Dolby disingenuously vows, aping Clinton, to "drop some bombs on Maggie Thatcher and Ronnie Reagan." Uh, right, big fellah. When will he stop being such a rambling hyperactive...
With such potential terrorist targets as Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Polish Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski and Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq on the guest list, the precautions are not excessive. The U.N. has been brushed by terrorism before. In 1964, as Cuban Revolutionary Che Guevara was castigating the U.S. in the General Assembly chamber, an anti-Castro group fired a 3 1/2-in. bazooka round at the U.N. from the Queens side of the East River. (It fell 200 yds. short, rattling the windows and more than a few delegates.) The security chiefs' greatest fear...