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These pressures combined to produce a summit that broke the logjam on Britain's demands. The compromise that was worked out was a diplomatic sleight of hand that saved face for both British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and French President Francois Mitterrand, who had taken personal charge of the effort to end the deadlock. Said a French spokesman: "There are no victors or vanquished." While other difficulties still remain, Mitterrand, the host of the summit, who was wrapping up his six-month term as Community president, was confident enough to proclaim: "The way has been cleared...
...industrial conflict at Orgreave, angry pickets showered the police with stones, bricks and bottles; in retaliation, the police charged them on horseback and on foot. By the end of the day, nearly 100 miners had been arrested, and 51 miners and 28 police were reported injured. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was unfazed by the events. Declared she: "The law must and will continue to be upheld...
...falls on Mrs. Thatcher to recommend
...numerous Kremlin functions, including the receptions for foreign statesmen that followed the funerals of Leonid Brezhnev and Yuri Andropov. On those occasions, he reports, Gromyko lingered longer with East bloc allies and exchanged only perfunctory greetings with Western leaders. "The exception," Amfitheatrof notes, "was Britain's Margaret Thatcher, who seemed able to charm the grim-faced Foreign Minister...
...Friday morning session in Lancaster House, Prime Minister Thatcher set a businesslike tone. Predicting a "great measure of common understanding and agreement" at the summit, she then ticked off a list of conservative economic positions as the basis of unity for the leaders. Among them: that a strategy of economic recovery based on public-sector restraint and limited monetary growth "is the right one, and we intend to stick to it." Thatcher tossed in a plug for one of her favorite topics, "adapting our societies to an unprecedented pace of technological change...