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...according to Marjorie Heffron of the New Office, was interested in drawing parallels with Oxford University's recent refusal to grant an honorary degree to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher when she spoke at the university...
While Gorbachev's tactics last week somewhat flummoxed the Administration, the impact in Europe was muted. The center-left French daily Le Monde headlined its story A SETBACK FOR GORBACHEV: EUROPEANS REJECT THE MISSILE MORATORIUM. As usual, Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was quick to line up with Reagan. Said she: "The place for negotiations was across the table in Geneva, not in the pages of newspapers." A few peace groups took heart from Gorbachev's message, but even some of them seemed disappointed. Said Pierre Galand, head of a Belgian organization opposed to nuclear weapons: "The moratorium...
...purchase the necessary hardware, forcing Petty and Roger to launch a fundraising drive for their tanks and aircraft. They ask Prince Charles to appear at a teatime piano concert featuring one of their neighbors: he politely declines. They plan a "Bring-and-Buy" sale and ask Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to contribute an item. But they receive no help in those quarters, and their dund-raising drive falls short...
...serious questions remain among several allies about participation in SDI research, let alone the ultimate deployment of a Star Wars system. While such stalwart U.S. friends as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl initially endorsed the idea, there are indications that neither the British nor the West German government is altogether sure of its course...
...Thatcher government welcomed the Weinberger proposal and promised "urgent consideration." The response came against the background of a speech, approved by Thatcher advisers, in which Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe last month compared the Star Wars program with France's Maginot Line, the vast defensive wall designed before World War II as a means of protecting France against a German invasion; when the test came, the line proved useless. Howe also raised questions about the effect of Star Wars on the Western alliance's policy of nuclear deterrence and the possibility that a project of such magnitude could...