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Text 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKE Washington telegram 3474 to FCO (2014Z) (“Cyprus”) [Young-Eagleburger meeting: Young said “we hoped there would be no question of any increase in Turkish forces on the island”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 1388 to FCO (0345Z) (“Turkish Cypriot Declaration of Independence”) [UK draft resolution] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Howe PS letter to Coles (“Cyprus”) [“Turkey was prepared to take part in consultations of the three guarantor powers”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Howe PS letter to Coles (“Cyprus: Turkish Cypriot Declaration of Independence”) [“the Prime Minister should not acknowledge letters from Mr Denktash since that would have implied recognition of his status as ‘President’”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Coles minute to Fall (“Cyprus: Turkish Cypriot Declaration of Independence”) [MT “said we were deeply disturbed by this morning’s news”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Francis Noel-Baker telegram to Coles (“Cyprus”) [warned Turkish Cypriots against UDI] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UN Security Council resolutions (Turkish Cypriot UDI) [“the attempt to create a ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus’ is invalid, and will contribute to a worsening of the situation”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Treasury letter to No.10 (“CHOGM”) [Heads of Government meeting: national debts] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Department of Trade & Industry briefing to No.10 (“Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Chancellor of the Exchequer) [“CHOGM”: Heads of Government meeting] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS briefing to No.10 (Chancellor of the Exchequer’s comments on Helleiner report at IMF/IBRD meetings) [MT attending Heads of Government meeting] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: InterAction Council of Former Heads of Government transcript (“Final statement: first session: Vienna: 18 November 1983”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: FCO briefing to No.10 (“CHOGM: letter from President Banda”) [Heads of Government meeting] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: FCO briefing to No.10 (“CHOGM: Bilateral with President Moi of Kenya”) [Heads of Government meeting] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Ministry of Defence briefing to No.10 (Defence sales to India) [Heads of Government meeting] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: MT letter to President Obote (Appeal to the international community: Kampala displacement) [Heads of Government meeting] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine letter to Dr. David Owen MP (control of nuclear weapons systems) [UK-US joint control arrangements] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Nick Ridley) [privatisation, Severn Bridge, NBC] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT ("National Training Commission") [summary of Armstrong draft paper for Ministerial consultation; MT determined to end Department of Education's control of vocational training due to its having "done so little" for industrial needs] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office minute to MT (Responsibility for Work-Related Training in the Further Education Sector) [Armstrong draft paper for Ministerial consultation; MT determined to end Department of Education's control of vocational training due to its having "done so little" for industrial needs] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 3485 to FCO (2315Z) ("Possible U.S. retaliation for bomb attacks") ["what was worrying the President was this comparatively new phenomenon of State-directed terrorism"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("French airstrike in Lebanon") [concerns for security of British troops in light of possible further French airstrikes without prior notification to UK] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram to FCO ("Beirut security") [situation report on British security measures following recent bomb attacks; incomplete record of conversation with Gemayel recording his intention to visit UK] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: MT message to President Reagan ("Possible US retaliation for bomb attacks") [MT anxious to know how US will respond] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Heseltine minute to MT ("Lebanon") [security measures following bomb attacks on US/French forces] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: FCO telegram 1948 to UKE Washington (1345Z) ("Lebanon/MNF") [EC statement] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Government leaks) [content with No.10's proposed response to Chairman of the Conservative Party following public complaints over leaks] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Italian Parliamentary debate on INF") [deployment of intermediate range nuclear missiles] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("INF negotiations: Soviet manoeuvring") ["The Soviet motive for turning the truth on its head is not clear yet"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO record of conversation (Geneva negotiations on reduction of Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces) [Soviet Ambassaor Popov, Richard Luce] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute (internal): Ingham to Coles ("European Community") [proposal for MT "to place clearly on record her approach to Athens... by means of an Oral Question"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gibraltar: Governor's Office of Gibraltar telegram to FCO ("Gibraltar") [closure of naval dockyard: request for authorisation to commence rundown in face of probable trade union-organised resistance] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: MT letter to Director of Central Statistical Office (Government Statistical Services: Annual Report 1982-83) [Written Statement to Parliament; "I should like to congratulate you and your staff on the splendid progress it records"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Cabinet Office minute: Peter le Cheminant to Lord Gowrie ("YTS") [Youth Training Scheme: negotiations with Civil Service Unions; trainee for No.10] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Fowler PS letter to No.10 ("Future of Optical Services") [Fowler statement to Parliament on ending of Opticians' monopoly; MT query about dispensing restrictions applicable to children] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Cabel and Wireless Share Sale") [sale of Government's remaining shares] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Younger letter to Tebbit ("Future Regional Industrial Policy: Draft White Paper") [proposed amendments] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (Future Regional Industrial Policy: Draft White Paper) [MT approves No.10 Policy Unit's proposed amendments] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Nicholas Edwards letter to Tebbit ("Future Regional Industrial Policy: Draft White Paper") [proposed amendments] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Tebbit minute to MT ("Rolling Back Protectionism") [priority measures: tariffs] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 ("Leak to the Guardian on Cruise Missiles") [how to respond to Guardian refusal to return leaked document intact with details which might identify source of leak; MT opposed to journalists being jailed in the event of non-compliance with court order] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Prime Minister González Márquez letter to MT (Accession of Spain to the EC) ["I am concerned that frustration may take over my country's public opinion, which has serious doubts regarding the existence of a true political will on the part of the Community to see the completion of the Accession"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Foreign policy: Hugh Thomas note for MT (policy suggestions) [Argentina, Grenada, Belize, Nicaragua, US] [released 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Director of Rowland, Debono Ltd letter to MT (tax simplification proposals) [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Argentina: Sherman minute to MT ("Danger: Argentine and Central America") [danger of US arms sales to Argentina] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Hugh Thomas notes to MT ('war on jargon' and South America) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Autumn Statement) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Christopherson minute to MT ("modest, but worthy, media requests") [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Zambia: President Kaunda of Zambia message to MT (thanks for message of congratulations on Kaunda's re-election as President) [released 2013]

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