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...President indirectly sounded part of the Administration line on Ferraro at a White House luncheon Friday for female Republican elected officials. Said he: "The Conservative Party of Great Britain chose Margaret Thatcher as their leader not because she was a woman but because she was the best person for the job. There was no tokenism or cynical 'symbolism' in what they did." Reagan-Bush Campaign Director Edward Rollins sarcastically termed Ferraro "a superb choice. She is bright, articulate, and she stands for everything Mondale stands for?increasing taxes, cutting defense spending...
Politics and protocol weighed heavily on the mind of Canada's new Prime Minister, John Turner, 55, as he sped home from a whirlwind visit to London. He had gone there to see Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and to ask Queen Elizabeth II, who is also Canada's Constitutional Monarch, to postpone a two-week tour of Ontario, Manitoba and New Brunswick that was scheduled to begin last week. The Queen's assent allowed Turner to make a much awaited announcement: Canadians will go to the polls on Sept. 4.* The federal election was needed, he said...
Britain's dispute with the Community goes back to its entry in 1973. When Thatcher came to power in 1979, she promptly began demanding what she called "my money." At issue was the Community's lavish agricultural subsidies to members. These outlays still run well ahead of revenues, largely because governments are constantly under pressure from farm lobbies not to cut back. Because Britain's agricultural system is so limited, the country was receiving fewer subsidies than other member states. As a result, Britain, one of the Community's poorest members in terms of per capita...
...first the Community's inability to reach a compromise with Thatcher was attributed to British ambivalence about being a member to begin with. Thatcher has done little to sell her country on the positive side of Community membership, such as the grants and subsidies Britain has received for highway improvement, job-training programs and aid to depressed areas. The opposition Labor Party, in its 1983 general election manifesto, pledged to pull Britain out of the Community. Many Britons have made it a scape goat for the country's economic ills: a recent Gallup poll showed that only...
...recover two-thirds of its net annual contribution (the difference between the country's payments and Community benefits). No one seems to be able to say exactly how much all this adds up to, but it will probably turn out to be less than the $1.3 billion that Thatcher originally requested. Still, the formula is sufficiently ambiguous to create the impression that neither side lost. Thatcher insisted, how ever, that any future revenue increase must include another favorable deal for Britain...