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Date: 20 Oct 1981.

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81 Oct 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
81 Oct 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("SR-71 flights in Korea, Japanese Briefing on Arafat Visit, Former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban") [declassified 2016]
81 Oct 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Greece: MT message to Andreas Papandreou (Greek elections) [congratulations on victory, looks forward to working together] [declassified Dec 2017]
81 Oct 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Fishing Industry: Humphrey Atkins PS letter to No.10 ("EC Fisheries") [advice on possibility of UK legal challenges against EC Commission] [released Dec 2014]
81 Oct 20 Tu	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Elections: “Distant encounters of the Heath kind” (Heath campaigining for Conseravtives in Croydon by-election)
81 Oct 20 Tu	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Economy: “A Hard winter” (Cabinet divisions over public spending plans)
81 Oct 20 Tu	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Economy: “Rumblings of revolt among Tory dissidents” (meetings of wets to discucss how to put pressure on MT)
81 Oct 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Walters MSS)	Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [cabinet meeting on public expenditure][released 2012]
81 Oct 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Walters minute to MT ("Gordon Pepper on Monetary Control") [Walters' response to Pepper's comments] [released 2012]
81 Oct 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: Bickham letter to Gow (European Democratic Group's views on proposed European Parliament electoral reform) [switch to a proportional representation system] [released 2012]
81 Oct 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Opinion Polls: Britto note to Derek Howe ("Public Opinion Background Note 86") [weekly survey note] [released 2012]
81 Oct 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Canada: MT letter to Bernard Braine (patriation of the Canadian Constitution) [Parliamentary concern about Trudeau's proposals] [released 2012]
81 Oct 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: Armstrong minute to Alexander ("Anglo-Irish Summit") [British and Irish objectives] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prior) [Prior's planned visit to Ireland; MT tries to persuade prior against making such a visit but reluctantly agrees] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Labour Party: William McKelvey MP letter to MT (closure of BMK carpet manufacturers in Kilmarnock) [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Romania: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Romanian Foreign Minister, Stefan Andrei) [situation in Romania, bilateral relations, Middle East] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	North-South: Walters minute to MT ("Cancun - A View on Foreign Aid") [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	North-South: HMT letter to No.10 ("Cancun Briefing") [Cancun summit] [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	North-South: Department of Trade letter to Overseas Development Administration ("Cancun Briefing") [Cancun summit: trade related "nuggets"] [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT ("Gordon Pepper on Monetary Control") [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: Armstrong minute to Whitmore ("Panorama Programme on the KGB") [responding to possible doubts about Cabinet Office security] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 33rd (Parliamentary Affairs, British Leyland, Unemployment, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Economic Policy and Public Expenditure) [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economy: Walters minute to Scholar ("Cabinet Meeting on Public Expenditure") [importance of PSBR target] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: Armstrong minute to Alexander ("Community Budget and Chancellor Schmidt") [comment on Chancellor of the Exchequer's minute] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Community Aid for Housing in Northern Ireland") [EC budget] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Trade Unions: Armstrong minute to MT ("The National Union of Mineworkers") [note on structure, procedures and personalities within the NUM, and likely tactics to be adopted during pay negotiations] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	India: Indira Gandhi note to MT (“Message to the Prime Minister and People of the United Kingdom from Air India 143”) [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Oman: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“Qaboos University”) [construction contract to UK firm] [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Transport: Howell letter to Brittan (“British rail pay and finances”) [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 20 Tu	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Major	Margaret Thatcher	House of Commons PQs
81 Oct 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 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 2012]

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