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Text 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury record of conversation (National Insurance contributions) [Chancellor of the Exchequer, Fowler, officials] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Edwards letter to Rees (“Public Expenditure Survey”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: MT minute to Keith Joseph ("National Training Commission") [MT clarifies & endorses No.10 record of recent meeting with which both Joseph and King were unhappy in regard to their concerns about their respective Departments' powers & responsibilities for further vocational education] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO telegram to UKE Dublin ("Anglo-Irish Summit: Taoiseach's press conference") [summary of main points] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 3362 to FCO (2340Z) ("Lebanon: possible US retaliation") [Reagan public comments about US response to the attack] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Lebanon: US retaliation") [French position] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: FCO telegram to UKE Bonn ("Lebanon") [press line in event of US retaliation for 23 October bomb attack] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: FCO telegram 559 to UKE Washington (1950Z) ("Lebanon: possible US retaliation in collusion with Israel") [Howe outlines concerns further to 23 October bomb attack] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: FCO telegram to UKE Bonn ("US retaliation") [Howe outlines concerns further to 23 October bomb attack] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Bullard minute to No.10 ("Lebanon: possible message to President Reagan") [draft message from Chancellor Kohl to Reagan further to 23 October bomb attack on US/French forces] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: President of the World Maronite Lebanese Union message to MT (terrorist attacks against the Multinational Forces) [condemnation] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: FCO minute for Coles ("Visit of Yugoslav Prime Minister") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Royal family: MT letter to HRH Princess Margaret (Lord Mountbatten memorial statue) [thanks for letter and lovely photograph; "I could wish our own amateur efforts came out like that"; ceremony "so right and so unforgettable"] [declassified Feb 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Personnel Work in the Civil Service") [findings of study into suspected "gross disparity in the number of people employed... compared with... private sector"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 3364 to FCO (2345Z) ("Ceausescu's letters on INF") [Geneva arms reduction negotiations with Soviet Union] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("INF: new US proposal and Romanian letter") [Geneva arms reduction negotiations with Soviet Union] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: USE Rome record of conversation (MT, Deputy Secretary Dam) [Argentine certification] [published 2015]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Sir Terence Beckett, CBI Director-General, letter to MT (opening address to CBI Conference) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: John Moore letter to Tebbit ("Competition Policy and Telecommunications") [comments on Tebbit draft statement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Anglo/Soviet Relations") [new date for postponed Rifkind/Kornienko talks] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Soares (Accession of Portugal to the EC) ["Our interest [is] in an outcome which will ensure that no Member State is asked to bear a financial burden disproportionate to its means, and that agriculture expenditure is brought under effective control"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKHC Ottawa telegram 601 to FCO (2315Z) ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Mr Trudeau on 11 November") [East/West relations; Grenada; CHOGM; Hong Kong] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Trudeau (East/West relations and international security) [acknowledges points raised in his letter of 26 Oct, and looks forward to their meeting on 11 Nov; text attached, of Trudeau's speech at Guelph] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: Anthony Parsons minute to John Coles ("Soviet Prisoners in Afghanistan") [proposal to grant UK asylum to some of the prisoners: potential snags] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Heseltine minute to MT (“Withstanding an oil tanker drivers’ strike”) [comments on report - risk of use of servicemen] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Younger minute to MT (“Withstanding an oil tanker drivers’ strike”) [comments on report - agree objective is to withstand long strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Foreign Ministry note (call from UKE Budapest) [prompt reply needed to Bullard] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Foreign Minister Várkonyi minute to Comrade Horn (MT visit) [plans to announce] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [East-West relations, US foreign policy, Middle East, Grenada, Allied cooperation, arms supplies for Argentina] [declassified 2015]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Treasury record of conversation (Lawson-Stoltenberg) [international issues, FRG and UK economies, EMS] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Alan Walters minute to MT ("J.M. Keynes, "Monetary Reform" 1923") [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Alan Walters article in The Washington Times ("Debt For Sale") [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Sherman draft passage for MT's speech at Lord Mayor's Banquet (reforms made by MT's government; future reforms) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Mount note to Butler (David Young wishes to speak to MT about the future direction of policy) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Portugal: MT letter to Prime Minister Soares of Portugal (MT supports Portuguese EC membership bid) ["I sympathise with your sense of frustration at the sometimes slow and tortuous progress of your negotiations with the Community"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT letter to Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada (East-West relations) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Grenada: MT letter to Commonwealth Secretary-General Shridath (future for Grenada) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“MIT: Future of Hong Kong: Meeting with Yao Guang”) [“Yao was generally defensive”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Central Office letter to Alison (visits by overseas party leaders) [proposed meetings with MT] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Chief Whip minute to Ministers (“Ministers in charge of Departments”) [complaints from MPs about delay in receiving replies from Ministers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Howe minute for MT (“ Brazil”) [wants to consider new export credits] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: UKE Moscow to FCO (“Middle East: Soviet Comment”) [press report] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: UKE Amman to FCO (“Jordan-Middle East”) [King Hussein’s interview: Jordanian policy] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 (“South Atlantic surrender documents”) [public display and archiving] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe telegram to UKHC Bridgetown (“Falklands at the General Assembly”) [Argentina condemns US-led invasion of Grenada] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe telegram to UKE Rome (“Falklands at the General Assembly”) [plea to Italy to abstain from vote on Argentine resolution] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe telegram to UKE Paris (“Falklands at the General Assembly”) [plea to France to abstain from vote on Argentine resolution] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Falklands at the General Assembly) [France minded to support Argentine resolution - MT urges abstention] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Nov 8 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs

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