Word: primes
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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This broadside from Howe became the catalyst for the most serious challenge to Thatcher's leadership in her 11 years as Prime Minister. Michael Heseltine, a former Minister of Defense who stalked out of the Cabinet in 1986 and had been circling Fort Thatcher ever since, finally decided to make his move. He said Howe's resignation revealed a split in the party that could not be resolved without a fight...
...Party into a fourth election victory." The party's 372 Members of Parliament were to indicate in a secret ballot this week whether they agreed with him. Bookmakers were offering 2-to-1 odds on Thatcher to retain her position as leader of the ruling party and thus as Prime Minister. To win outright, she must receive an overall majority plus 15% more votes than any other candidate. To force a second ballot next week, Heseltine has to garner at least...
...abstained. This time, Heseltine's supporters claim he will top 100, which would be a major blow to her authority. As the Times of London put it last week, "The country needs to know whether Mrs. Thatcher does or does not retain sufficient party support to remain a strong Prime Minister. If she does not, she must...
...Muriel Spark were a car, she would be getting about 50 miles to the gallon. The author of one of the most elegant short novels of the century, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, wastes not a word in this, her 19th, novel. With brief snatches of conversation, 10 characters at a London dinner party are introduced with such clarity that the reader knows who would be a bore to sit next to and who will drink too much...
...Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir responded to the outcry by clamping new restrictions on Palestinian workers. Computers are churning out expanded lists of Palestinians banned from entering Israel for security reasons, while authorities raided restaurants, shops and factories last week and rounded up more than 1,000 illegal Arab workers. Economics Minister David Magen promised to introduce measures to cut in half the number of Palestinians from the territories working in Israel...