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Stoessinger could have added the names of Khomeini, Gaddafi, Khalid, Schmidt, Giscard, Ohira, Brezhnev, Lopez Portillo, Torrijos, Thatcher-all humans magnified mightily by the television lens, transposed into looming actors on a global stage...
...Maggie Thatcher is a wow in Washington and New York...
...immediate result of Rhodesia's renewed legality was the lifting of the economic sanctions imposed by Britain after Rhodesia declared independence. The Carter Administration decided to follow suit and end U.S. sanctions too before Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's official visit to Washington this week. Nonetheless, the return of British sovereignty caused little rejoicing in Rhodesia. Among the country's 212,000 whites, a somber mood of surrender and betrayal combined with a strong distrust of British motives. Snapped a white Salisbury housewife: "The British are not here to return democracy to us. They are here...
...choose a Woman of the Year instead? Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is my proposal...
...Thatcher's position was upheld by two of her predecessors as Prime Minister in what Callaghan called "a calm and rational debate." Speaking from the corner Commons seat once occupied by Winston Churchill during the '30s, Edward Heath strongly denied that there had been any "coverup" and insisted that Blunt's disclosures about other Soviet spies had provided "a great deal of valuable information." Callaghan agreed with Heath, but allowed, with hindsight, that "the advice at the time about Blunt being allowed to stay in a palace post was wrong." And Callaghan added the icy comment...