Word: thatcherism
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...nation of shopkeepers and gardeners, but it is not one of shareholders. Only one in 25 people own stock, vs. one in five in the U.S. Last week that began changing, as Britons rushed to take part in the biggest stock sale since 1066 and all that. The Thatcher government is selling 50.2% of British Telecom, the nationalized telecommunications company, to institutional investors and the general public. The sale will raise $4.7 billion from more than 3 billion shares...
...received - and he now appears to be seeking continued Soviet support. The Kremlin is not without sympathy for the miners' leader: last year, while visiting Moscow, Scargill noted that the threat to world peace came from that "most dangerous duo, President Ray-Gun and the plutonium blond, Margaret Thatcher." He also attacked the outlawed Polish trade union Solidarity as "an anti-socialist organization which desires the overthrow of a socialist state...
...level, the Soviet connection pleases the Thatcher government, providing headlines in the press and questions in Parliament slanted against the miners. At the same time, however, it calls attention to a recent episode that London and Moscow would rather forget. At the end of October, eight days after Thatcher announced the Gorbachev visit, a Soviet trade union official appeared on the main Soviet evening TV news program Vremya to announce a total embargo of Soviet fuel exports to Britain. Five days later the embargo was firmly denied by the Soviets, and it was passed off by British diplomats...
...will not be alone after all. Britain gave notice last week that it will leave the Paris-based organization at the end of 1985 if certain management and budgetary reforms are not under taken. The decision came after a Cabinet argument in which Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, insisted that Britain take a firmer stand against UNESCO's financial mismanagement and anti-Western bias. Its director-general, Senegal's Amadou Mahtar M'Bow, has annoyed the U.S. and Britain by, among other things, promoting a plan under which UNESCO would...
...Thatcher government denies that the announcement is the result of U.S. pressure. The Prime Minister, said a senior British official, "has been fuming about this for months and didn't need any prodding by anyone." If both the U.S. and Britain pull out, UNESCO will lose nearly 30% of its annual operating budget...