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...matches were degenerating into fistfights, the conference chairwoman, Lena Jeger, rapped her gavel and shook her head like an angry schoolmarm. "This isn't a football match!" she cried over the pandemonium. "We are making a spectacle of ourselves!" So it seemed. At the very time when Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government was slumping and vulnerable to possible attack, some 1,250 Labor Party delegates trekked to the seaside resort of Blackpool for their annual conference last week and promptly turned their guns on one another. The result was a brutal factional dogfight that even the pro-Labor...
While visiting South Africa, Walls caused a stir with some frank talk to the press. He told a BBC interviewer tie had sent British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher a message in March requesting that Mugabe's election be invalidated because of widespread intimidation by ZANU supporters. Walls also gave an ambivalent answer to a question about reports that he had considered a military coup in the event of an inconclusive election...
...Thatcher staves off a challenge, but has little to cheer about
...thrust forward, spoiling for a fight, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher did not mince any words. "It is no good dreaming about U-turns," she shouted at the Labor M.P.s who had been demanding a radical reversal of her economic policies. "Far from demoralizing the country, we are doing what the country elected us to do, and this government will have the guts to see it through." The buoyant show of indomitability was occasioned last week by a vote of no confidence in the House of Commons, the second called by the opposition in five months. The outcome was never...
Still, the victory left little to cheer about. The indications were that the heated debate signaled an intensifying round of battles over Thatcher's unflinching dedication to her strict monetarist policies, following the doctrine of U.S. Economist Milton Friedman. She has rigidly controlled the money supply, doubled the value-added tax, cut benefits for striking workers, and slashed $20 billion in public spending for all manner of education, housing and municipal programs. Thatcher defends the brutal cuts on the grounds that she won the election with the candid promise that "things will get worse before they get better...