Word: communique
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...though, as the gathering concluded, about 150,000 antinuclear demonstrators marched in London to protest the presence of both Reagan and U.S.-built cruise missiles in Britain. By the end of the meeting, the leaders had summed up their deliberations in a blizzard of generally inoffensive documents: an economic communiqué, a "Declaration on Democratic Values," a statement on East-West relations and arms control, and a pledge to coordinate action against international terrorism. In addition, Summit Host Thatcher, with the backing of the other leaders, issued a call for peaceful settlement of the Iran-Iraq war. If the various...
Thatcher read the 17-point economic communiqué on Saturday at the City of London's 600-year-old Guildhall. Acknowledging that the West's economies were recovering, the document called for measures that would both create new jobs and spread the benefits of growth. It noted with concern "the growing strain of public expenditure in all our countries," a favorite Reagan and Thatcher theme, but also stressed the need for job creation and training programs. In an oblique criticism of U.S. policy, the communiqué said that high interest rates were making it more difficult for heavily...
...dinner at London's St. James's Palace, an octagonal-turreted brick structure built for King Henry VIII. Seated in the Armoury, a second-story room lined with muskets, swords, pikes and other antique weaponry, the summiteers listened as Thatcher broached her notion of the political communiqué on democratic values. Thatcher felt strongly about the idea. "The Brits are treating this like it's the Magna Carta," said a U.S. official...
...first word that Iraq had used the Super Etendards came in a military communiqué boasting that the planes had attacked "two naval targets" near Kharg Island. In fact, a low-flying missile fitting the description of a radar-controlled Exocet reportedly hit a 41,000-ton Greek tanker, Filikon L., that was more than 70 miles away from Kharg Island. The ship, under contract to the Kuwait Petroleum Corp., had just loaded up with fuel at the Kuwaiti port of Mina al Ahmadi. Damage proved relatively minor, but a second ship hit in the same attack...
...South African hostilities against the Angolan government and to Pretoria's support for the antigovernment forces of Jonas Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). "The governments of Cuba and Angola," the communiqué went on, "reiterate that they shall restart, on their own decision and exercising their sovereignty, the implementation of the gradual withdrawal [of Cuban troops] as soon as the conditions...