Word: thatcherism
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...hurled insults. The Rev. Ian Paisley, leader of the militantly Protestant Democratic Unionist Party, denounced King as "a white-livered cur" and "a yellow-bellied coward." On Saturday, tens of thousands of Protestants converged on the city hall, where they set aflame the Irish tricolor and an effigy of Thatcher...
...SEALs (for Sea, Air and Land forces) and the Air Force's First Special Operations Wing. West Germany has its G.S.G. 9 antiterrorist group, while the British government has recently decided to station units of its highly regarded Special Air Services at five airports. As British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told the American lawyers in July, "We have behind us many fine declarations and communiqués of good intent. We need action, action to which all countries are committed until the terrorist knows that he has no haven, no escape...
...most dramatic episodes ever to take place during a British Cabinet meeting, Defense Minister Michael Heseltine stormed out of 10 Downing Street last week and resigned. Heseltine was angry over Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's refusal to ensure that the country's only helicopter manufacturer, troubled Westland (1985 losses: $137 million), would remain entirely in European hands. Connecticut-based United Technologies Corp., which owns the helicopter maker Sikorsky, has together with Italy's Fiat offered $105 million for a 29.9% share in Westland...
Arguing that "Britain's future as a technologically advanced country" was at stake, Heseltine supported a bailout by a rival consortium of British, French, Italian and German firms that came up with a nearly identical offer. Thatcher, who is ideologically opposed to state intervention in private enterprise, insisted that the matter be left to Westland's board and shareholders. Now that he is out of the Cabinet, the dynamic, thick-maned Heseltine, 52, will probably remain a strident Thatcher critic, and, some Tories believe, could eventually challenge her for party leadership. SOUTH AFRICA A Blow for Black Unions...
...chinks in the Iron Lady's political armor were growing wider each day. What began last fall as a relatively minor issue, the fate of an ailing British helicopter manufacturer, had ballooned into one of the severest tests for Margaret Thatcher in her nearly seven years as Prime Minister. The controversy has already prompted the angry resignation of Defense Minister Michael Heseltine and threatened to force the ouster of Trade and Industry Minister Leon Brittan. In the House of Commons last week, amid charges of high-level deceit and manipulation, Thatcher's critics turned the debate into a full-scale...