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None of the arguments was very convincing. Other world leaders used the occasion to make useful contacts with their peers; Britain's Margaret Thatcher, who also faces severe domestic problems on the economic front, found the time to spend 24 hours in Belgrade; Yugoslavia's new leaders would have welcomed the chance to meet the American President; and many U.S. voters would undoubtedly have recognized that Carter had valid reasons of state for taking the trip...
Millions had watched the commando operation on television, and when it was over, all Britain was in a mood to celebrate. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher hailed it as "a brilliant operation, carried out with courage and confidence," which made her countrymen "proud to be British...
Thus, in a pointed message to Iran's President Abolhassan Banisadr, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher expressed her displeasure over the seizure of the Iranian embassy in London by Iranian Arab terrorists. Obviously she was also indirectly condemning the Tehran government for allowing Iranian militants to hold the American hostages for the past six months. The irony could hardly have been lost on the Iranians, who went to embarrassing lengths in an effort to establish a difference between the two embassy seizures. Touring the Persian Gulf, Iran's Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh said that the seizure...
Within her party, she faces problems. Her Cabinet is seriously split between her own brand of doctrinaire Tory ideologues and the more pragmatic traditional conservatives. Cabinet meetings are often prickly. Ministers who make a weak case or are deemed "wet" (spineless) are sharply chastised. In extreme irritation, Thatcher has a habit of slapping her palms against the green baize tabletop. In the House of Commons, her majority of 43 harbors rebellious, hard-line backbenchers who demand tougher restrictions on trade unions and more ruthless cuts in public spending...
Through this tempestuous first year, Prime Minister Thatcher has coolly stuck to her maxim: "You can only do what you feel and know to be right." Taking it all in all, she is ebullient. Says she: "I quite like being Prime Minister...