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...rapidly. She became a junior minister for pensions in 1961, and three years later, when the Conservatives were in opposition, she was promoted to the front bench, which allowed her to shine in debate. In 1967 she joined the shadow cabinet and held a number of portfolios, including housing, transport and education. She also spoke up on treasury matters. Some Tory backbenchers remember vividly the verbal exchange that marked Thatcher as a fighting lady to be reckoned with. Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, who is renowned for his brutal wit, had just dubbed her "La Pasionaria of Privilege." Thatcher...
...unions and government. The union leaders, whose battle with Callaghan over his proposed 5% wage ceilings led to a bitter winter of strikes and slowdowns, endorsed the message, closing ranks as they had not done for years. Pledging his allegiance to Labor, Moss Evans, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, said that "working with the Tories would be like running a cross-country race barefoot." Sidney Weighell, head of the National Union of Railwaymen, warned that if the Tories win, "I'll tell the lads to stick their noses in the trough...
...night. Restaurants serve traditional Greek dishes (moussaka, roast lamb in lemon), as well as fine lobster and the celebrated Robola wine ($2 a bottle). An increasingly popular island is Santorini in the Aegean, which is said to have been the legendary Atlantis. Donkeys and buses are the local transport...
...then "surveyors" of Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) arrived to inspect the area. They were followed by assassination squads and finally soldiers in units of 80 to 100. In two months they controlled the district completely. The school was closed down, along with transport services and business centers. Soon, the killing started...
...Tanzanian soldiers set off for the frontier at a leisurely pace in a caravan of twelve Land Rovers, three tanks, an armored personnel carrier and a Jeep with a mounted recoilless rifle. A second force, which literally moved at a walk because of a shortage of motor transport, headed north to take control of the Israeli-built airfield at Nakasongola, 66 miles from Kampala. One group of soldiers managed to move quickly, for its assignment was to occupy key points in Jinja, an industrial town east of Kampala, and then seize the Owen Falls dam, Uganda's only source...