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...Andropov's death 15 months later, Amfitheatrof once again maintained a vigil in St. George's Hall, "watching Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher applying body English during an earnest conversation with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, and noting the poignantly graceful passage of sari- clad Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi." Amfitheatrof was covering Mikhail Gorbachev's successful visit to Britain last December when Ustinov's death caused Gorbachev to rush back to Moscow. Amfitheatrof also hurried back, canceling plans to join his wife and two daughters for Christmas in Rome...
...televised expose was the latest in a series of incidents that has challenged the Conservative government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher over its use of Britain's archaic security laws. Particularly under attack is the Official Secrets Act of 1911, which allows the government to withhold details of its activities, no matter how insignificant, simply by claiming that anything not officially released is a state secret. Under the law, any civil servant who reveals such secrets, as well as any journalist who publishes them, is subject to arrest and, if convicted, to a maximum sentence of two years in prison...
...ability to strike when and where we decide." Indeed, after a long period of relative calm in Ulster, the I.R.A. had killed more police in this attack than in any other single episode since violence between Protestant and Catholic militants first erupted in 1969. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who escaped an I.R.A. bombing attempt on her life last October at Brighton, in the south of England, called the attack "barbaric." Echoing her sentiments, the Irish Republic's Prime Minister, Garret FitzGerald, described the I.R.A. assault as "cruel and cynical" and pledged that Irish security forces would help hunt...
...British leader continued to act like a personal cheerleader for the President at her final press conference. Thatcher expressed her displeasure at New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange's decision a month ago to refuse port access to U.S. ships that might be carrying nuclear weapons. Lange's announcement has prompted the Reagan Administration to review its ANZUS (Australia, New Zealand, U.S.) defense pact for the southern Pacific. Thatcher announced that for security reasons, Great Britain, like the U.S., would continue to refuse to say whether its ships entering New Zealand ports carried nuclear weapons. "I hope (New Zealanders) would...
...Wednesday evening, Thatcher was host at a dinner at the British embassy in honor of the 200th anniversary of British-American diplomatic relations. The menu underscored the conviviality of the visit: poached salmon "Nancy," followed by filet of veal "special relationship" and raspberry mousse "Margaret." In his toast, the President mentioned the close friendships of Churchill and Roosevelt, of Harold Macmillan and John Kennedy, then said, "I'd like to add two more names to that list: Thatcher and Reagan." Thatcher broke up Reagan with several quips, including her lament that, despite sharing the same goals, she could not imitate...