Word: thatcherism
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...when an Iranian friend translated the poster behind the defendants. It reads: "England is worse than the U.S., but the Soviet Union is worse than both of them." Now tell me, how can England be worse than "the Great Satan"? A friend suggests that perhaps it is because Margaret Thatcher refuses to wear the veil...
...might have been expected to produce. A month later, when I stopped in London, I met with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. She is a most intelligent and courageous and politically gifted leader, utterly devoted to the West and to her country's friendship with the U.S. She is also among the Reagan Administration's best friends. I had to tell her that the President was thinking of going beyond the pipeline sanctions. It was possible he would impose a total embargo on the Soviet Union, even call the Polish debt into default...
...Thatcher gasped: there would be nothing left to do were we to go the whole hog at once; the Soviets might as well go into Poland. Britain, and the other members of the alliance, wanted desperately to follow the American lead on Poland in a policy that would protect the Polish people and discomfit the Soviets and the regime in Warsaw. But it was too much to ask that they punish their own economies and their own interests in support of policies that would inflict no noticeable wound on Moscow...
...Buenos Aires, while the British fleet moved down the South Atlantic like the weight on a clock, Galtieri told me, "The Argentine government is willing to find an honorable solution that will save Mrs. Thatcher's government. But we cannot sacrifice our honor." Then he lowered his voice, looked around the table at his colleagues, and added, "You will understand that the Argentine government has to look good...
Machismo appeared to be the style of the Argentine leadership. This would mix dangerously with the icy scorn and iron will of Mrs. Thatcher. Even when the determination of the British was pointed out in crystal-clear terms, Galtieri replied, "Why are you telling me this? The British won't fight." In this judgment, I believe, he had the agreement if not the tutelage of Nicanor Costa Méndez, the Foreign Minister, who was reportedly the main opponent of my advice. On a number of occasions after Galtieri had showed some movement in the negotiations, Costa Mendez...