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...Margaret Thatcher, who successfully concluded the Falklands dispute, is the outstanding political leader of the West. D. Hartnell-Beavis Ibiza, Spain
While Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher worked in the upstairs study of her official residence at No. 10 Downing Street, an aide sorting mail in a room below noted a suspiciously bulky envelope. As he warily began to open it, the envelope exploded into flames, burning the man's face and hands. Thatcher, however, was not harmed. According to a note enclosed in the 7½-in. by 5-in. envelope, the attack was the work of a previously unknown environmentalist group, the Animal Rights Militia...
...large within British intelligence? How did he slip past four security checks within a ten-year period? Barred by British law from discussing the case during the trial, both the press and opposition members of Parliament last week demanded a full explanation from the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Scoffed the Daily Express: "Our surveillance system is reduced to a laughing stock. What has a Soviet spy to do to bring himself to the notice of our counterespionage-wear an I LOVE BREZHNEV badge...
Facing an anxious, upset House of Commons last week, Thatcher announced that the Security Commission, Britain's highest level investigative body in such matters, will look into the Prime case and make recommendations about antispy measures. Said Thatcher: "It is not only British interests that have been damaged. The damage extends to the interests of the United States Government. And, of course, the damage of our own and U.S. interests is damage to the Atlantic Alliance as a whole." Though the full extent of the damage done by Prime may never be known, its deleterious effect on the reputation...
...Falkland Islanders, a point that London considers "paramount" in settling the dispute. Said Britain's Ambassador to the U.N. Sir John Thomson: "Britain can look after herself, but she has an obligation to look after the Falkland Islanders as well." Prior to the vote, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sent messages to President Reagan, indicating in no uncertain terms that she considered the U.S. stand a betrayal of Britain. Later, she termed the U.S. position "incomprehensible and disappointing...