Word: thatcherism
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...closely consulted at every step. Reagan exchanged letters with the heads of government in all five of the countries that are scheduled to accept U.S. missiles (Britain, West Germany, Italy, Belgium and The Netherlands), and is said to have talked by telephone with Kohl and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. These consultations were so fruitful that when the President announced his decision last week, the British, German and Italian governments all claimed partial credit for prompting it. Said one British official: "It was a model exercise of how these things should be done...
Eight thousand miles away, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher herself standing on shifting political soil, drew Britannia's rustling sword from its scabbard and let a righteous charge in the name of self-determination that lifted her national prestige to a level from which it has yet to substantially descend...
THROUGHOUT the past year, Thatcher has been pushing the Parliamentary advantage the British victory gave her with her usual political acuity. Making an unannounced trip to the Falklands in early January, she reaffirmed her image as a leader and a liberator in the eyes of the islanders and the British population who supported her position during the war: she then returned home to have her conduct further justified by the report of the Franl's Commission on the Falklands Crisis. The Commission exonerated her Government and her Foreign Minister Lord Carrington and essentially avoided pointing the finger at anyone other...
...concern of past and future democratic governments. When the economic burden of holding the islands becomes too great for the British, the process of negotiation that should have been taking place a year ago will finally resume. In the interim, Argentina stumbles back toward the democratic process, Margaret Thatcher rises above the opposition on the backs of British soldiers. Ronald Reagan pursues the option of war by proxy in Central America, and the Falklands remain a sad testament to intransigence, ambition, and stupidity...
...prevent another invasion, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has pledged to defend what has become known as Fortress Falklands at an estimated cost of $2.79 billion over the next three years, or more than $1.5 million per kelper. Despite a Gallup poll indicating that 53% of the British felt the islands were not worth keeping at such high expense, Thatcher resolutely refuses to retrench or to negotiate the future sovereignty of the islands with Argentina...