Word: thatcherism
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...designed to put the onus on the U.S. to avoid what the Soviets call the militarization of space. "It is especially important to avoid the transfer of the arms race to outer space," warned Mikhail Gorbachev, the Kremlin's No. 2 man, in talks with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. "If it is not done, then it would be unreal to hope to stop the nuclear arms race." Recognizing that Britain and other allies are leery of Star Wars, Gorbachev hoped to exploit their misgivings. Thatcher publicly stuck by the U.S., but was careful to endorse only research into space...
Fortune proved kinder to Margaret Thatcher, who had just left her bathroom in a Brighton hotel when an I.R.A. bomb demolished four floors of the hotel and damaged the spot where she had been standing minutes before. Terrorism came of high-tech age that night; the explosives had apparently been planted under the floorboards weeks earlier and detonated by a microchip timer...
Terrorism kills moderation, trust, courage. It poisons society and invites the response of repression, which can breed further wanton violence. Could there be a scarier pronouncement for 1985 than the one made by the I.R.A. after the failed Thatcher murder? "We have only to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always...
Some successful women leaders, Margaret Thatcher to name one, are gender neutral: they do not speak for the hopes and concerns of women any more than a male leader would. But Ferraro ran for Vice President as a feminist--and as a symbol of the transformation in the lives of American women over the past 20 years. She realized, as did most American women, that her campaign was a risk. Was the risk worth it? The answer lies not with the result but with the women, and men, who looked at Ferraro and sensed a limitless future for their daughters...
...status as the most likely successor to Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko. That in turn might weaken Gorbachev's chances and strengthen those of his chief rival for the job, Grigori Romanov, 61, a fellow Politburo member widely considered to be a dogmatic hardliner. Nonetheless, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher will be looking for any clues to Soviet thinking on arms control in view of next month's meeting between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...