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Date: 20 Nov 1979.

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79 Nov 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
79 Nov 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Willie Whitelaw minute to Geoffrey Howe ("Telvision Licence Fees") [announcement of fee increase] [declassified Dec 2014]
79 Nov 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Geoffrey Howe minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Telvision Licence Fees") [date for announcement on fee increase] [declassified Dec 2014]
79 Nov 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Tonga: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Visit of the King and Queen of Tonga") [advice to MT to meet with King & Queen during their visit] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 Nov 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial policy: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Finances of the Port of London Authority") [Government intervention: options & next steps] [declassified Aug 2013]
79 Nov 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Sir Ian Bancroft minute to No.10 (suggests PM send Christmas message to civil service) [“I just don’t think this is a very good idea” (MT)] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Energy: Department of Energy, Energy Conservation Division letter to No.10 ("MEC") ["we have met with a very obstructive attitude from the Departments of Trade and Industry"] [declassified 2010]
79 Nov 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial policy: Michael Edwardes letter to MT (British Leyland) [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Indonesia: President Suharto letter to MT (letter of thanks) [Suharto's visit to the UK] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social Services: Department of Industry letter to HMT ("Strikers and Supplementary Benefit") [paper by Joseph] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Europe: Treasury brief for Dublin European Council - EHG(D)(79) 3 ("Economic Situation in the Community and Worldwide") [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Europe: FCO brief for Dublin European Council - EHG(D)(79) 13 ("European Parliament") [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Europe: FCO brief for Dublin European Council - EHG(D)(79) 15 ("Enlargement") [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Zimbabwe: MT letter to President Kaunda of Zambia ("Rhodesia") [attacks on Zambia] [released 2010]
79 Nov 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Zimbabwe: MT letter to President Machel of Mozambique ("Rhodesia") [agreement reached on pre-independence proposals; ceasefire negotiations to begin] [released 2010]
79 Nov 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	City: MT letter to Nicholas Goodison (Stock Exchange chairman) [defends decision not to exempt & points out he WAS consulted] [declassified 2013]
79 Nov 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Proceedings of the Lancaster House Constitutional Conference - CC(79) 83 (Thirty-Sixth Plenary Session) [declassified 2010]
79 Nov 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Lady Plowden, Chairman of the Independent Broadcasting Authority, letter to MT (ITV levy) [Chancellor of the Exchequer concerned that levy is on profits, not revenue] [declassified 2011]
79 Nov 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Giscard) [plenary session: industry, energy, finance, situation in Iran, Africa, Rhodesia, Cambodia] [declassified 2011]
79 Nov 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Ingham MSS)	Press Office: Lobby Briefing (Protection of Information Bill, Maxwell Fyfe Directive, Anthony Blunt, visit of French President) [released 2010]
79 Nov 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Ingham MSS)	Press Office: Bulletin (Blunt) [denies rumoured embargo on Blunt’s press statement] [released 2010]
79 Nov 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: HM Ambassador to Italy despatch ("Note of a meeting with Italian Ambassador-designate … Andrea Cagiati") ["an old Andreotti man … [latter] determined to get to the Quirinale after a spell as Party Secretary"] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary Policy: Bank of England note (Goodhart) [Budd & Burns on Medium-Term Financial Strategy] [declassified 2010]
79 Nov 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Rates: Heseltine letter to Howe (“Future of Rating”) [“increasing pressure to say what we are doing”] [declassified 2012]
79 Nov 20 Tu	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Major	Margaret Thatcher	House of Commons PQs
79 Nov 20 Tu	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Major	Margaret Thatcher	Joint Press Conference with French President (Giscard d’Estaing)
79 Nov 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore letter to MT (Rhodesia Constitutional Conference) [message of support] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 ("Zambia/Rhodesia") [MT Message to Kaunda] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: FCO letter to the office of the Lord President ("Rhodesia") [draft announcements on appointment of the Governor] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2010]
79 Nov 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Government Broker's daily report (market conditions & official activity in the gilt-market) [declassified 2010]

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