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...Syrian military positions, usually can hit back and stay within the brackets of the Middle East military equation. For a superpower, such a response would reverberate dangerously and complicate Washington's other goals. Meeting with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth Dam last week, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher warned that Britain would not support U.S. strikes against Syrian targets. U.S. Special Envoy Donald Rumsfeld, who was appointed to his post two weeks ago, planned to stop in London to see Thatcher before flying on to the Middle East this week...
...growth and to cool inflation at the same time. The new regime hopes that its victory will persuade edgy Argentines to return money that they have transferred outside the country. Alfonsin is willing to discuss the future of the Falk land Islands with the British, but Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who welcomed Argentina's "return to democracy" last week, reiterated that the islanders must be allowed to determine their future...
Some of the most pained comments on the invasion of Grenada came from the U.S.'s NATO allies. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher refused to criticize the U.S. publicly, but she let it be known that she had tried unsuccessfully to dissuade President Reagan from taking military action in a former British colony that was still a member of the Commonwealth. The opposition made the most of the issue. During a stormy session of Parliament, Labor Foreign Affairs Spokesman Denis Healey declared that the American rejection of Britain's advice "represents a quite unprecedented humiliation of an ally...
...shock faded, the allies did their best not to allow the event to stand in the way of hard-won unity on the missile question. Trudeau declared that he was sounding out Commonwealth leaders about a joint peace-keeping force that could replace the U.S. troops on Grenada. The Thatcher government said that it would consider participation in such a venture, and also took pains to deny that the U.S. decision had in any way weakened the alliance. Washington's lack of consultation, said British Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe, was "regrettable. But the fact that that has happened does...
...some sensational headlines and pictures. That is simply not the case. The press has a serious quasi-constitutional function as a representative of the public. Obviously the White House or the Pentagon remembered the Viet Nam "livingroom war" and the revulsion it created. Obviously they admired and envied Margaret Thatcher's dealing with the press during the Falklands invasion, when the Iron Lady's government allowed only a small contingent of journalists along, under wraps...