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...summit meetings] into just so much internal propaganda for each of the participants. In that case, they should not be held at all." The French President was threatening by implication to boycott next year's summit, to be held in the U.S. Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher took one look at the original Brussels text and told her aides, "I cannot put my signature to this declaration, which goes beyond what is acceptable in publicly criticizing our American ally." Backed by West
German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Thatcher succeeded in talking her European colleagues into a milder line that called for an "effective dialogue" with...
Despite their attempts to moderate the public spat with Washington, Thatcher and Schmidt still hoped to change U.S. policy. The British Prime Minister instructed Secretary for Trade Lord Cockfield to give notice that Britain is prepared to defy the Reagan sanctions in order to enable British companies to complete $200 million worth of Soviet orders for the huge natural-gas project. Said Thatcher to the Commons: "The question is whether one very powerful nation can prevent existing contracts being fulfilled. I think it is wrong to do that." In the same spirit, Schmidt announced that "like our European partners...
Owen's star rose during the Falklands war, when he patriotically backed the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - but only up to a point. Alluding frequently to his experience as Foreign Secretary, he rarely failed to mention that he had averted an Argentine threat to invade the Falklands...
...unemployment and the economy." On that turf, Jenkins' experience as Chancel lor of the Exchequer from 1967 to 1970 helped him a good deal. Jenkins, however, now faces an uphill battle. The Social Democrats and the Liberal Party reached 44% in the polls last November, ahead of both Thatcher's Conservatives (27%) and the Labor opposition (27%). But in the wake of the Falklands victory, the Tories have become the favorites, with 45%; the Social Democrats, with 23%, have fallen to third place...