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...Great Britain nuclear power is developing at a slow but steady pace. Eleven stations supply 13% of the nation's electricity, and another five plants are scheduled to be finished by the late '80s. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is ardently pronuclear, though concern for safety is growing. Says a British Energy Department official: "The Three Mile Island mishap caused us to sit back and take stock...
...shipments of new bombers and tanks to Egypt. An American, delegation visited the Sudan where Libya's Soviet-supplied jets have been bombing border villages, and promised to try to deliver quickly $100 million worth of military equipment to a jittery President Gaafar Nimeiri. Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was in Pakistan, where she urged more Western weapons sales to protect that country from a possible attack by Soviet forces occupying Afghanistan. Then she flew in one of Pakistan's Soviet Mi-8 helicopters to the Khyber Pass, where she talked to an Afghan border guard sporting, of course...
...NATO; a commitment to a mixed economy for Britain. Said Williams: "The economic issues agreed upon by Labor denied the existence of inflation, their trade policies denied the existence of Europe and their defense policies denied the existence of the Soviet Union." On the other hand, she termed Thatcher's government "disastrous and stiff-necked. We do not need either an all-providing state or a don't-give-a-damn state," she concluded. "We need an enabling state that will help men and women help themselves...
Winterton immediately informed Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's office and asked for an investigation...
...Lorean promptly rejected the charges as "completely asinine." Said he: "The government has two people on our board to monitor our finances. Every cent we have ever had has been monitored by British internal revenue." Indeed, the Thatcher government went out of its way to downplay the affair. Britain's Solicitor-General Sir Ian Percival said that only "routine" inquiries were being made and stated flatly: "Neither the Prime Minister nor anyone else has ordered an investigation of the company's affairs or anything remotely like...