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...anyone who followed the British election that resulted four years ago in Margaret Thatcher's becoming her country's first woman Prime Minister, the contrast with last week's triumph is striking. Recalls London Bureau Chief Bonnie Angelo, who reported on this week's cover subject in both campaigns"In 1979 I was with a group of political scientists and journalists, and when someone said, 'She can win the election, but can she lead the country?,' no one would hazard an unqualified yes. Four years and a landslide later, that doubt seems incredible" Since...
...Britain before returning to New York to write the main cover story Traveling for two days with the Prime Minister through Scotland and the Manchester area, Kelly noted one other major difference from American politics I was amazed by how close anyone and every one could get to Thatcher," he says. "She had few security people, and they kept at a distance At 1 one stop, a bakery, a couple of dozen demonstrators were shouting only a few yards away from her black Jaguar. As she got out, an egg splattered.A the back...
Presidential Aspirant Fritz Rollings last week referred to his fellow presidential aspirant John Glenn as "this joker." Among the political cognoscenti that may have been the second biggest story of the week, outranked only by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's electoral tidal wave. Invective can be hazardous on the hustings in these timorous days...
Awaiting the outcome of last week's balloting, Margaret Thatcher, elegantly dressed for the victory celebration that was to come, sat on a brocade sofa in the handsome white drawing room at 10 Downing Street and talked with TIME London Bureau Chief Bonnie Angela. Excerpts from the interview...
...Labor campaign faltered, Thatcher re-entered the fray, fending off Healey's charges that she intended to abolish Britain's 35-year-old government-run medical-care system. Said she: "I have no more intention of dismantling the National Health Service than I have of dismantling Britain's defenses." But as she noted the Alliance's sharp rise in the polls, Thatcher momentarily, and perhaps for the first time in the campaign, seemed flustered. She warned of the possibility of electing a militant Labor government if too many people "thought it safe to give other parties...