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...known Coghlan in the past. Archer denied any prior association with Coghlan, claiming that he had "foolishly" suggested the foreign trip because he feared her story would be politically damaging. Nonetheless, he resigned his Tory office, to which he had been appointed a year earlier by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher...
...more than $4 billion a year; the Afghanistan occupation requires the deployment of close to 120,000 troops; the military budget consumes, according to some estimates, about 14% of total government spending. Gorbachev's domestic objectives will demand a massive reallocation of resources. As he told Britain's Margaret Thatcher in March, "We need a lasting peace to concentrate on the development of our society and to proceed to improve the life of the Soviet people...
Britain's recent election struck many voters there as too much like an + American presidential campaign. Pollsters, Madison Avenue techniques and television played too conspicuous a role. And to what end? Margaret Thatcher won as expected, even though almost everyone agreed that Labor's Neil Kinnock had campaigned more effectively on television (causing Lady Seear, a Liberal politician, to complain, "He may be a nice man, but for a Prime Minister it's not enough to be nice. It's not enough even for a cook!"). British politicians may be learning techniques from us, but it appeared to an American...
...Prime Minister typically rises at 6, after only five hours' sleep, and breakfasts on black coffee and vitamin pills. She often fixes simple meals for herself and Husband Denis, 72, a retired businessman and avid golfer. Thatcher's own favorite recreation appears to be reading briefing papers. She has groomed no obvious successor among the Tories, and remarked early in the campaign that she might "go on and on," perhaps seeking a fourth term. "What would she do if she weren't Prime Minister?" asks Tory Chairman Tebbit. "One doesn't see her retiring to gardening or making marmalade...
WORLD: Britain' s Margaret Thatcher...