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...trip was entirely appropriate, as I'm sure does Tom DeLay," says a source close to the center, which would not comment on the record. DeLay's office maintains the Congressman did important work on the trip, the highlight of which was a meeting with conservative icon Margaret Thatcher. The long-retired British Prime Minister regaled DeLay with an account of her efforts to end the cold war more than a decade earlier. As for Abramoff, a spokesman contends he is "being singled out for actions that are commonplace in Washington and are totally proper...
...first sign that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was readying for a confrontation with journalists came during a speech to the American Bar Association meeting last month in London. Speaking before the gathering of U.S. lawyers, Thatcher said that the media should refrain from giving terrorists publicity. Last week her government pressured the independent British Broadcasting Corp. into canceling a televised documentary on Northern Ireland because it featured an interview with a politician who is allegedly a leader of the Irish Republican Army...
...overall balance of the program," he wrote in a letter to Board Chairman Stuart Young, "but the opportunity [for the terrorists] to boost the morale of their supporters." After a turbulent seven-hour session during which it viewed the film, the board decided to drop the documentary. Said Thatcher: "I'm very pleased." Young, however, denied that the board had succumbed to government pressure...
...protests were directed at the governing board of the BBC. The previous week, after objections from Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Home Secretary, Leon Brittan, the board had canceled a television documentary that featured interviews with Irish extremists, including an alleged leader of the Irish Republican Army. Thatcher, the target of an I.R.A. bomb last October, had declared a month ago that terrorists should be denied the "oxygen of publicity...
...government later denied rumors that the Prime Minister might have resigned if she had lost the vote, which could have led to new elections in August. Said one Thatcher aide: "There's never a popular time to give money to senior people." PHILIPPINES A Threat to Close U.S. Bases...