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...flood of protests. Joshua Nkomo, Mugabe's principal political rival, denounced the move as reminiscent of arbitrary arrests made under the white-dominated rule of Prime Minister Ian Smith. Four of the six men hold dual Zimbabwe-British citizenship, and last week the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher expressed its "very great concern" over the incident...
...after Britain, Italy and Belgium. Any sign that West Germany was weakening its commitment might unleash doubts among other NATO allies, not just about West German but also about American resolve, thereby threatening the entire missile deployment scheme. Washington will not have to worry about Britain. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is so committed to the NATO decision that she will deploy cruise missiles at the end of the year, even if the West Germans drag their feet...
RECOVERING. Margaret Thatcher, 57, Britain's Iron Lady; from surgery on a partly detached retina in her right eye; in Windsor, England. The Prime Minister entered Princess Christian Hospital after unsuccessful laser treatment, left three days later pronouncing herself...
...generally, and perhaps unfairly, depicted as inept and their leaders as divided and squabbling. Yet if Hastings and Jenkins are partial to the home team, they can also be critical: of the Royal Navy's tendency to act without consulting its sister services, of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's inability to avoid hostilities in the first place. The authors do, however, applaud the Prime Minister's Churchillian tenacity once there was no turning back. "The figure of Margaret Thatcher towers over the Falklands drama from its inception to the euphoria of the final triumph," they conclude...
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher indicated as much in a letter last February to Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang. The letter did not explicitly concede sovereignty, which London wants to hold as a bargaining chip, but it did, in the words of a Western diplomat, send the Chinese "a very broad signal." As the diplomat loosely paraphrased it, the letter said: "We know you will gain sovereignty, but before we put things down in black and white let's see what you have in mind for administering Hong Kong...