Word: thatcher
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PERHAPS SHE WAS too ambitious, When she left the Commonwealth Conference in Lusaka last month, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher took home plans for a comprehensive military and political settlement of the conflict in Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, with the approval of her 38 Commonwealth partners. Last week, her plans seemed to become reality as two delegations arrived for talks in Lancaster House, near Saint James Palace in the heart of London. One group spoke for the Patriotic Front, won alliance of insurgent forces headed by Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe; the other represented the current government, led by Prime Minister Abel...
...conference. For instance, the The Financial Times has reported that British mediators may be hoping to win acceptance of constitutional changes mainly from the Muzorewa government, in the expectation that Front forces would eventually present unreasonable demands and break up the conference. Then, according to the Times, the Thatcher government in Whitehall could recognize the Salisbury government and refuse to renew economic sanctions against it when they expire in November. If the Front torpedoed the conference, this argument runs, Mrs. Thatcher could explain to her colleagues in the Commonwealth--and the to front line states of Africa--that...
...Patriotic Front. The purpose of the conference, which is sponsored by Britain, is to forge an agreement that may lead to Patriotic Front participation in new elections and an end to the bloody seven-year civil war. With a stable majority-rule government in Salisbury, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher could lift the 13-year-old economic sanctions against Britain's breakaway colony when they expire in November. On the eve of his departure for the peace talks, Muzorewa (along with former Prime Minister Ian Smith) gave an unmistakable sign that he intends to keep up the fight to retain...
...elite Scots Guards neared the Rhine at the close of World War II, a dashing Sandhurst-trained tank commander risked his life to rescue one of his men under fire. The exploit won him the Military Cross. Last Friday, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's office announced that the onetime officer, Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, 57, will be assuming a rather different command. In January he will replace F. Donald Coggan, who is retiring at age 70 as Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of the Church of England and titular head of the world's 65 million Anglicans, including America...
...Prime Minister Jack Lynch and his Fianna Fail Party were returned to power two years ago. Lynch's failure to return from a vacation in Portugal until late last week did nothing to stem the criticism, though he vigorously condemned the I.R.A. as the "real enemies of Ireland." Thatcher is being urged to push for tougher security measures when she meets with Lynch following Mountbatten's funeral this week...