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Text 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to Dr. David Owen MP (control of nuclear weapons systems) [UK-US joint control arrangements] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MOD minute for Coles ("East/West Economic Relations") [declassified 2015]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Whitelaw letter to Brittan ("Prisons manpower and long term expenditure") [MT consents to substantial increase in prisons manpower despite drive to reduce civil service numbers, but emphasises need for efficiency savings elsewhere in prison service] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Spain: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community affairs") [N. Ireland; subsidised exports to Soviet Union; negotiations with Spain on duty quotas for car imports; impact of falling oil prices; Lome Convention; food aid; 1983 CAP price fixing; UK budget problem] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: UKE Jeddah telegram to FCO ("Oil prices") ["the King was most anxious to stress... that the break-up of OPEC would do damage to the whole world"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Oil price") [meeting to discuss response to Sheikh Yamani/OPEC proposition] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Department of Energy record of conversation ("Note of the Secretary of State's meeting with Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Minister of Petroleum on 9 March 1983") [oil prices/OPEC proposition] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Pym minute to MT ("Reform of Community institutions") [MT supports proposal for reduction of Commission membership from 17 to 12, in context of EC enlargement] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Tebbit letter to Whitelaw ("Legislative Programme 1983/84") [Trade Union Bill; Dock Work Regulation Act 1976] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Jenkin minute to MT ("The West Midlands") ["I know that you are as concerned as I am at the serious industrial and economic decline": proposed initiatives] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Chairmanship of the Joint Intelligence Committee") [proposal to upgrade Sir Antony Duff from Deputy Secretary to Second Permanent Secretary] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Megaw") [possibility of "big "catching-up" pay increase... the Treasury has had some work done... by outside consultants... results are reassuring"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Willie Whitelaw minute to MT ("VHF Band II and Independent National Radio") [allocations to BBC, IBA] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Jim Prior minute to Willie Whitelaw (Radio Frequency Review) [effects of closing TV line transmitters in Northern Ireland] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 letter to Mr. R.A. Swaby, Brasway P.L.C. (Leyland) [anti-Conservative feeling amongst colleagues] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robin Nicholson) [public presentation of the Government's scientific research effort: MT proposes public seminar] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Ministry of Defence minute to No.10 ("MINIS in MoD") [Heseltine's introduction of management information system previously deployed in Department of Environment] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Malaysia: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Mahathir of Malaysia) [Anglo-Malay relations; Non-Aligned Summit meeting; oil; ASEAN countries; Cambodia; Iran/Iraq War; trade; economic situation in Malaysia; UK university fees] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Mozambique: FCO letter to No.10 ("Visit by President Machel") [seeking appropriate date for visit] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Home Office minute to No.10 (“The Investigation of Offences of Rape”) [revised guidelines for police in England and Wales] [declassified 2015]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Malaysia: Coles minute to MT (Prime Minister Mahathir of Malaysia attacks Soviet Union in speech) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Australia: Prime Minister Fraser of Australia letter to MT (Fraser's election defeat) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Defence: MT letter to David Owen (response to Owen's claims about control of Thor missiles) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: MT letter to President of the European Commission, Gaston Thorn (Thorn's views on dealing with EC problems) ["I am...far from convinced that what you call 'removing the budgetary constraint' [will help]"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing (“A New Economic Initiative” (E(83)6)) [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Henry Steel letter to Coles (“Extradition from the Republic of Ireland”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Whitelaw, Keith Joseph, Howell, Fowler, Jenkin, King, Tebbit, Baroness Young, Timothy Raison, Mount) [“Family Policy Group”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Industry: Patrick Jenkin minute (“The West Midlands”) [marketing of development schemes] [released 2017]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: Shultz memorandum for President Reagan [draft] (resuming US arms sales to Argentina) [declassified 2000]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 speaking note for Cabinet to MT (“Hong Kong”) [willing to recommend transfer of sovereignty to Parliament if satisfactory agreement] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Pym, Heseltine, Acland, Youde, Cradock, Alan Donald, Anthony Parsons) [“Record of a Discussion at 1600 hours on Wednesday 9 March 1983 at 10 Downing Street”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Pym PS letter to No.10 (“Argentine attitudes: official comment”) [ongoing public hostility to UK] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Alan Walters minute to No.10 (“Cable: the Chief Secretary’s letter of 4 March”) [restriction of competition] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 note to MT (draft Treasury briefing) [1983 Budget] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“House of Lords decision - Wicks v Firth, Johnston v Firth Employer Scholarships”) [MT strongly against Howe proposal to tax parents on the benefit of scholarships] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Mar 9 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Speech at dinner for Prime Minister of Malaysia (Dr Mahathir)
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (weekly report on market conditions) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions including US report) [declassified 2013]
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