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TIME's Peter Jordan also was presented with a major O.P.C. honor: the Olivier Rebbot Award for best photographic reporting from abroad for his pictures of the bombing of the Marine headquarters in Beirut last October and his coverage of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's election campaign last spring. Nachtwey and Jordan join a long list of TIME photographers who have won these distinguished Overseas Press Club awards and risked their lives to give TIME readers a level of news photojournalism no other publication can rival...
...week was a tense and painful one for the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The British public was outraged by the murder of the policewoman, Constable Yvonne Fletcher, 25, and by the thought that the Libyan "diplomat" who had fired an automatic weapon into a crowd of anti-Gaddafi demonstrators should go unpunished. Even as the diplomats of the two countries were preparing to fly home on Friday afternoon, the funeral of Constable Fletcher was being held at the 13th century Salisbury Cathedral in southern England...
...Thatcher government had been concerned about the welfare and safety of the estimated 8,500 Britons in Libya. It also doubted the feasibility of bringing the Libyan gunman to trial, since in the end he could probably claim diplomatic immunity. Finally, there was the fear that the Libyans might attempt a desperate act of terrorism, possibly by planting a time bomb in their vacated London embassy. The feelings of exasperation were summarized by a high-ranking British official: "We want them...
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher protested the mining in the strongest terms to Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., who was in London. Privately, her ministers explained that they fear Reagan is heading toward a showdown with the Sandinistas that will make it all the harder to justify U.S. foreign policy to a European public already highly uneasy about placement of American nuclear missiles in Britain and on the Continent. Said a British government minister: "Grenada, Lebanon and now Nicaragua, again. These gung-ho displays really do not help us in defending American behavior." Said Kirkpatrick, replying to allied...
...destruction of the Greenham camps, carried out by local authorities with the blessing of the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, came at a time of rising tensions in Britain and The Netherlands over plans by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to continue deploying medium-range Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe. The only other encouraging sign of Western resolve last week came in Italy, where Defense Minister Giovanni Spadolini announced that the first 16 cruise missiles at Comiso in Sicily were operational...