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82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Nott, Brittan) [“Defence Expenditure”] [declassified 2013]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to Whitelaw PS (“The contracting out of public sector functions”) [lacklustre responses from Departments] [declassified 2013]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("French balance of payments") ["The French trade deficit for September... is second only to that of June, which set a historical record"] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Falkland Islands: Rehabilitation") ["further progress report"] [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Pym minute to MT ("Falklands: UN tactics") ["Latin American draft resolution... clearly quite unacceptable to us... with vigorous lobbying... we may yet succeed in getting... a significant number... to abstain"] [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Pym minute to MT ("Mr Cranley Onslow's visit to the Falkland Islands: 3-8 October") [report] [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Lawson letter to Pym ("Falkland Islands and the potential for offshore hydrocarbons") ["If... [UK] is to demonstrate our exercise of sovereignty over the Falklands is being responsibly undertaken we will, at some stage, have to assess the hydrocarbon potential of the area"] [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: President Reagan message to MT (Williamsburg economic summit: agenda) ["these meetings are an especially valuable opportunity for frank, candid and direct conversation... The problems we face cannot be reduced to structured agendas"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	France: Chairman of the Franco-British Council letter to MT (Prime Minister Mauroy) [report on Mauroy's remarks at recent reception] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	India: UKHC New Delhi telegram to Department of Trade ("Daitari Steel") [latest position on Orissa project] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	National health: No.10 minute to MT ("Statement on the NHS") [summary of reactions in House to Fowler statement on pay dispute/industrial action] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised industries: Treasury briefing for MT ("Public expenditure and electricity prices") [paper on future levels] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised industries: Lawson minute to MT ("Electricity prices") ["It is now clear that the current level... cannot be justified, and that corrective action should be taken as soon as possible"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised industries: Lawson letter to Brittan (electricity industry) [savings for 1983/84] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised industries: Cabinet Office letter to Departments ("Withstanding a strike in the electricity supply industry") [nominations for official study group] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Manpower: No.10 letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS (unemployment: business start-up scheme review) [MT request for review to be concluded by end of November] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Manpower: No.10 letter to Central Policy Review Staff (CPRS report on unemployment) [MT "has asked me to thank you... for all the work that went into this report... follow-up work has now been commissioned"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Sri Lanka: MT message to President Jayewardene (1245Z) (re-election as President of Sri Lanka) [congratulations] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Parliament: Gow letter to Lord Frank Marshall (thanks for sending copy of letter from Solly Pearce to Marshall) [Pearce is likely to vote Conservative at the next election] [released 2013]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: Hailsham letter to MT (Hailsham thanks MT for luncheon, comments on Labour Party and the SDP) [Labour party "appears to be indulging in an orgy of self-destruction", and SDP "may do us a good turn on balance" by collecting "former and potential Labour votes"] [released 2013]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Germany: No.10 letter to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit to Berlin") [MT wishes to lay wreath at Berlin Wall "to all those who had lost their lives in crossing the Wall"] [released 2013]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Sri Lanka: MT message to President Jayewardene (congratulations on re-election) [released 2013]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Christopherson minute to Butler (MT remarks during interview with Tony Shrimsley) [MT on timing of general election: "I don't cut and run"; position of Alan Walters within No.10] [released 2013]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	China: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chinese Church leaders) [situation for Christians in China, place of religion in society] [released 2013]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: Coles minute to MT ("European Restrictions on Trade with Japan") [declassified 2012]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Media: Ingham minute to MT ("Developments in the Media: Expansion of Television") [declassified 2012]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Media: Ingham minute to MT ("Diary to End of Year") [declassified 2012]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Parliament: List of Parliamentary Private Secretaries [released 2013]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Parliament: Parliamentary Private Secretaries list [released 2017]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Mexico: UKE Mexico City telegram to FCO (“Mexican Economic Crisis”) ["slipping deeper … president continues to make loftily vacuous statements on almost everything except what matters … general mood of apprehension, cynicism and gloom"] [declassified 2014]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Walters MSS)	Economy: Alan Walters diary [Department of Industry says Walters is “holding things up”][released 2012]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Funding and Conversion”) [Bank's successful conversion operations] [declassified 2013]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Poland: UKE Warsaw to FCO (“Views of the Polish Primate”) [the trade union legislation, the church, Solidarity] [declassified 2012]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Germany: Pym minute to MT (“Informal meeting of foreign ministers”) [EC, NATO - budget problems, steel trade, USSR] [declassified 2012]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong Pym PS letter to No.10 (“Hong Kong contingency planning”) [declassified 2012]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong Cradock telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong”) [declassified 2012]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong Cradock telegram to FCO (Future of Hong Kong) [declassified 2012]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, Lamont, President of Nissan) [Nissan investment in UK] [declassified 2012]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Security: No.10 security note for file (various security incidents at Chequers) [1982 note covering 1966-74 documents] [declassified 2012]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to FCO (“Zimbabwe: prospects for stability”) [military aid review] [declassified 2012]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: FCO briefing for MT (“Zimbabwe”) [MT meeting with Nicholas Winterton and Denis Walker] [declassified 2012]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Immigration: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Jopling) [changes to immigration rules] [declassified 2016]
82 Oct 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions including US report) [declassified 2012]

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