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British Prime Minister John Major is not as skeptical about European unity as his predecessor Margaret Thatcher was, but he captured the new Continental mood in his speech to a special session of Parliament. "There are fears throughout Europe," he said, "that the Community is too centralized, that it is too undemocratic, that the leaders of the Community are trying to develop it too fast." He said he would not present the Maastricht treaty to Parliament until after Denmark, which rejected it last June, has another try at approving...
...country at large. British Europhobes have seized on the crisis to demand that the country never return to the monetary system and that it get on with the job of reviving the British economy. Sir Alan Walters, onetime personal economic adviser to then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, quickly declared that the "government has made a howling mess of things...
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has outlined several military steps that will help turn back Serbian aggression in Bosnia...
Aware of these constraints, some military and political leaders are calling for unconventional approaches. Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher argues for arming Bosnian irregulars, who are badly outgunned by the Serbs, much as Washington helped the Afghan mujahedin. Colonel William Taylor, senior military analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, thinks an air attack on power plants, fuel tanks and military posts in Belgrade could take the heart out of the Serbs' fight. Others advocate an allied threat to destroy any Serbian plane, tank or piece of artillery that moves...
...sedate House of Lords, tradition demands that maiden speeches be brief and uncontroversial. But not if former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is the speaker. As Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, she made her debut with a 25-minute fulmination against the European Community...