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...Commons in 1976 when, irate over a demonstration staged by Labour M.P.s, he seized the ceremonial mace and brandished it over his head. Heseltine's sense of judgment was called into question again in 1986 when, after a bitter argument with Thatcher over the bailout of the privately owned Westland helicopter company -- she favored an American, he a European partner -- Heseltine stalked out of a Cabinet meeting and announced his resignation. An able orator and administrator, Heseltine, 57, has spent the past four years campaigning quietly but persistently against Thatcher, waiting for the right moment to achieve his Oxford goal...
...dealing would provide the rest of his education. In 1956 Khashoggi garnered a contract to supply trucks for the Saudi army. The pattern was set: the deal, the commission, the party, more contacts and contracts. By 1962 Khashoggi was the sales agent in Saudi Arabia for Chrysler, Fiat, Westland Helicopters Ltd. and Rolls-Royce. "One association," he says, "led to another, one business to another." For Western companies, Khashoggi was the man to know in Saudi Arabia...
...fight of her political life. "The Prime Minister is on trial," thundered Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock. Facing a packed and unusually hostile House of Commons, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher last week set out to convince Britons that she had told the truth about her role in the "Westland affair," a complicated brouhaha over the future of a British helicopter company that had already brought down two of her Cabinet ministers. Her voice sometimes quavering and cracking, she meticulously presented her case. "Doubtless," she admitted, "there were a number of matters which could have been handled better, and this...
About an hour before the Westland board was to recommend acceptance of the Sikorsky bid to its shareholders, excerpts from the Mayhew letter were leaked to the press. Thatcher's critics have charged that this was done to discredit Heseltine in his role as champion of the Europeans...
...believe, however, that Brittan's resignation will end the questions about Thatcher's role in the affair. An emergency parliamentary debate is scheduled this week on the Westland controversy. Labor Leader Neil Kinnock gave the Prime Minister a taste of the attacks she can expect when he called the leak the action of a government "not just rotten to the core but rotten from the core." Thatcher is certain to respond in kind...