Word: thatcherism
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...more radical positions. These include his firm opposition to the House of Lords (he legally renounced his title of Viscount Stansgate in 1963) and Britain's participation in NATO and the European Community. But on one issue Benn was unable to contain himself. Charging that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was planning to "destroy all unions," he condemned the government's decision to ban union membership at the supersecret Government Communications Headquarters at Cheltenham, 99 miles northwest of London, as "a major attack on civil liberties...
...government move, announced in late January, was a reaction to a series of small, short work stoppages in recent years at the intelligence facility, Britain's equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).* Arguing that union membership meant divided loyalties-one Thatcher aide insisted that "the union movement in this country is totally unprincipled"-the government gave Cheltenham's 8,000 employees three choices...
...ultimatum triggered an outcry from the Labor Party and the unions. Len Murray, general secretary of the powerful Trades Union Congress, declared that Thatcher was "accusing every union member-millions of British men and women-of being disloyal." The protest culminated in a half-day strike last week by thousands of civil servants and public service employees, and a brief stoppage of the national press. Criticism welled up even in the Conservative Party and in pro-Tory newspapers. But by week's end the Prime Minister had won her point and, in the process, inflicted a major defeat...
...military continued its protracted postmortem, Argentina's newly elected civilian President, Raúl Alfonsin, was trying to revive a civil and useful relationship with Britain. For weeks Alfonsin's government and that of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher have been exchanging messages through Brazilian and Swiss intermediaries regarding a partial rapprochement and resumption of peaceful negotiations over the future of the Falklands. In January the British offered to resume air services between the two countries, to restore trade and financial dealings that were frozen as a result of the war, and to return Argentine war dead...
...Sunday sermon at the small parish church in Elles-borough last week concentrated on the evils of wealth, but at least one member of the congregation, Mark Thatcher, 30, may have been distracted. The son of Britain's Prime Minister was visiting Chequers, the P.M.'s country estate, so that Dad and Mum could entertain his new American girlfriend, Karen Fortson, 24. She is the daughter of Ben Fortson, a Fort Worth oil magnate, and murmurings from both families suggest that a match may be entirely suitable. For the Fortsons, a Thatcher might be the next best catch...