Tuesday 8 February 1983
0830 Meeting on water strike [Material from handwritten original of the 1983 appointment diary: [S/ NI (Jim Prior) away].]
0900 Questions briefing team
0930-1015 Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan
1015 Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Francis Pym]
1015 [John Selwyn Gummer MP for YC speech] [THCR 6/1/2A/3]
1200 Sir Oliver Wright
1300 Lunch and Questions briefing
1515 Questions
1545 Gordon Wilson, MP and Alex Fletcher MP re Timex closure in Dundee. + Ernie Ross MP - H/C
1630-1715 Mr. Thapa, Prime Minister of Nepal to tea
1715 [E(TP)] [THCR 6/1/2A/3]
1830 Audience
Returned to No. 10 to change
2030 Dinner with SAS +DT and IG [Ian Gow] - Chelsea Barracks [Black Tie: No Decorations] [THCR 6/1/2A/3] [see THCR 6/2/2/56, dinner for about 30, including
most if not all of the Majors and Captains who had served in the Falklands. There is no guest list in the file, but among those attending were the Colonel
Commandant of the SAS, and Governor of the Royal Hospital, General Sir Richard Ford, Sir Fitzroy Maclean, Sir Stephen Hastings, Viscount Head, Ian Gow,
and Jane Gow.] [see THCR 1/7/7 f195 for the dinner menu and program]
[Material from handwritten original of the 1983 appointment diary: PM paired all day.]
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