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...Margaret Thatcher...
Soviet negotiators had their first chance to walk out on Nov. 16, the day after the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announced the arrival in Britain of the first shipment of Tomahawk cruise missiles. Instead, to put maximum pressure on the West Germans, another negotiating session was scheduled for Nov. 23, the day after the Bundestag vote. Meanwhile, one of the most curious episodes in the history of the two-year-old Geneva talks was unfolding...
British Prime Minister Thatcher and Helmut Kohl, who had replaced Schmidt in October 1982 as West German Chancellor, were Reagan's staunchest allies; then-support for deployment was rock solid. But they both faced elections, and they needed a new, more flexible-looking U.S. proposal to help outflank their political opponents and quiet their domestic constituencies. Kohl's Foreign Minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, and Thatcher both asked the U.S. to adopt an "interim solution," in which the Soviets would be allowed to keep a reduced force of SS-20s, while the U.S. would scale back its own deployment...
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was coming to Washington at the end of February. Lawrence Eagleburger, whom Haig had designated Assistant Secretary for European Affairs, managed to insert a clear-cut endorsement of the 1979 decision into the text of remarks that Reagan would make during a public appearance with Thatcher. Eagleburger, a career diplomat and former aide to Henry Kissinger, was, like Haig, concerned with reassuring the Europeans that the new Administration felt bound to preserve a certain amount of continuity in U.S. policy. The ploy worked. Now the President had committed his Administration to following both tracks, deployment...
...President François Mitterrand's government denounced the Denktash decision "without reservation." Declared Mitterrand coldly: "I don't think that the great powers want to involve themselves in this issue and thereby place an additional burden on those matters already in dispute." British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher suggested that, as the guarantors of Cyprus' independence under the 1960 treaty, Britain, Greece and Turkey discuss the problem. Greece, however, objected to face-to-face talks with Ankara, forcing Thatcher to seek a compromise formula for negotiations. The issue ultimately went before the U.N. Security Council, which voted...