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...time their discussion ended, Deng, looking tanned and healthy less than a month before his 80th birthday, seemed positively merry. "If we say that it was General de Gaulle who brought an end to French colonialism," he proclaimed, "then we can also say that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has brought an end to British colonial rule...
Your account of the aborted kidnaping of Alhaji Umaru Dikko in London [WORLD, July 16] was overly concerned with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's anger over the incident. The more important aspect of the story is that other Dikko-type Nigerians are living off stolen public money in London. Instead of unpacking Dikko, Scotland Yard should be uncrating the millions of dollars that corrupt Nigerian officials have been stashing away in British banks...
When the Labor Party was soundly thrashed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives in last year's elections, many political analysts attributed that defeat in part to Labor's commitment to nuclear disarmament, which would dramatically change Britain's role in NATO. Last week the party, led by Neil Kinnock, issued a 52-page defense manifesto that eliminated any remaining doubts about its program. The document recommended a policy that would remove all U.S. bases from the country, scrap the British atomic arsenal and work to make Europe a nuclear-free zone. Declared the party...
...Thatcher has come under heavy fire for not trying harder to resolve the dispute. The criticism apparently has rankled. In a blistering speech before her party's parliamentary members last week, Thatcher likened the battle with Scargill to the war with Argentina. "We had to fight an enemy with out in the Falklands," she said. "We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is more difficult to fight." Nor can Thatcher's troubles be dismissed as old-fashioned class warfare. Many of her own Tory backbenchers remain restive over the government's performance...
...recent days Thatcher's lieutenants have been forced to come to her defense and counter charges that she lacks savvy political advisers and will not tolerate any view different from her own. "She does listen," insisted House of Commons Leader John Biffen. The Prime Minister leaves no doubt that she sees governing as a constant battle. "It is not the beginning of the fight that matters," she contends. "It is fighting until it is well and truly finished...