Word: thatcherism
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Prime Minister Thatcher's visit to the Falkland Islands can be considered an act of provocation only by a country that also deals in provocation and colonialist adventurism. Her action is loyal and constant in a world of inconstant and shifting alliances born of economic expedience...
...producer to go first. Two weeks ago, Saudi Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani suggested that Britain, which is not part of OPEC, might take the lead by lopping $2 or $3 off the $33.50 it charges for a barrel of North Sea oil. But British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is hardly eager to initiate a price cut that would slow the flow of oil revenues into Britain's struggling economy. Says a senior British oil executive: "Why should we be first? Why should Saudi politics be more important than our politics...
...sense, Conrad was saying that the hard noses of the world account for its stabilities, and quite often this is true. Certainly, if one were to name a single quality common to world leaders nowadays, that quality would be consistency. Reagan, Thatcher, Begin, Andropov, the Pope; all different, all stubborn, all operating on presumptions and premises that almost never bend or vary. Bernard Berenson observed, "Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." But if consistency were not judged virtuous to some degree, it would hardly be in popular demand, nor would politicians...
Thus, it is not inevitable that governments dominated by men will wage war, nor that those dominated by women will be peaceful. (Consider the case of Margaret Thatcher). Women should be adequately represented in all positions in society, including government, not because it will insure peace, but rather because all segments of society should participate in the decisions which affect their lives. Jonathan Beckwith American Cancer Society Research Professor
...moment, Thatcher continues to ride the crest of her post-Falklands popularity; the latest polls show the Tories running 12½ percentage points ahead of Labor. But any new confrontation in the Falklands could upset the present mood, and last week just such a possibility was reported. Though Argentine officials denied that they were planning fresh hit-and-run attacks on the Falklands, U.S. State Department officers expressed some worry over intelligence reports of troop concentrations and exercises in southern Argentina. "They are up to something," says one U.S. intelligence official. "It may just be to keep the British...