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...Margaret Thatcher should serve as an example to America [June 20]. She represents many of the virtues that have faded in our nation. She is hardworking, thrifty, self-reliant and not afraid to believe in herself and her ideals. Britain's Iron Lady is as classically American as Superman...
...Thatcher's Victorian values-duty, hard work and self-reliance-are great if you are working and financially secure. But if you are poor and sick, what then do Victorian values offer you? Despair...
Your assertion that Margaret Thatcher won by a "landslide" is true if one looks at the distribution of seats in the new Parliament. But if one analyzes the popular vote, it is clear she has no mountainous mandate for her program. Fifty-eight percent of those who voted, over half, rejected her and her party's platform. Whether her proposals will harm or benefit Britain in the years ahead, they certainly do not now enjoy the support of a majority of the British people...
Your story on Margaret Thatcher's huge election victory in Britain ought to be a warning to our Democratic Party in 1984. The parallels between the left-wing Labor Party in the United Kingdom and the socialistic viewpoints expressed by some liberal Democrats in this country will lead to a resounding defeat for the Democrats next year...
Just over a year ago, the Conservative Party was trailing in the polls, and Mrs. Thatcher languished a poor third in the count by party leaders. The government then dispatched a task force to fight a war in the Falklands; whereupon Thatcher's popularity soared, and the Conservative Party has now been swept back to power. This is a terrifying lesson to give to the leaders of the world...