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PDF 84 May 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Ridley minute to MT ("East Coast Mainline Electrification") [proposal to uncouple ECML electrification proposal from the viability of Inter-City] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Liaison Committee (documents for meeting) [agenda, priority action points] [released 2014]
PDF 84 May 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 20th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Home Office letter to No.10 ("Cost of Policing Miners' Dispute") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Redwood minute to MT ("Open-Cast Coalmining") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 24 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO minute to No.10 (“Message of Congratulations to Dr. von Weizsäcker, Newly-Elected President of the Federal Republic of Germany”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Molyneaux minute to Alison (direct rule) [practicalities of renewal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Goodall draft note for the record (No.10 meeting on policy) [Nally proposals on territorial integrity] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Chairman of BL PLC letter to MT (US car tax legislation) [“We are mobilising opinion among United States owners and dealers who support our position”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Rolls-Royce letter to MT (US car tax legislation) [legislation “would clearly discriminate against higher priced imported cars”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: CBI submission (“CBI Submission on international economic policy”) [problem of high real interest rates, threat of protectionism, and indebtedness of developing nations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Helmut Kohl letter to MT (participation of additional German financial and economic ministers) [joint roles of ministers require attendance by both] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles (“London Economic Summit”) [revisons to draft declarations on economics and democratic values] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: John Coles minute to Armstrong PS (“Economic Summit”) [letters on Commonwealth views: extent to which MT should bring issues before Summit participants] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: John Coles minute to Armstrong PS (“Economic Summit: International TUC Delegation”) [will be received at No.10: need to know precise composition of delegation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Commonwealth Secretary General letter to MT (Commonwealth involvement) [monetary and fiscal reform, international debt, developing nations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: Ministry of Defence to MT (“Deployment of the MCM Force in the Mediterranean”) [mine countermeasures] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKMIS New York telegram 538 to FCO (2215Z) (“Message from Secretary-General to Prime Minister: Visit of Mr. Botha”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Chairman of the UK-Botswana Society letter to MT (“Visit of the South African Prime Minister”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT message to Chairman Mengistu (South African Prime Minister’s visit to the UK) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT message to Major-General Buhari (“Mr. Botha’s Visit”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: No.10 minute to MT (“Supply of Defence Equipment to Syria”) [reactions to Syrian request] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 May 25 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 May 25 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Bernard Ingham minute to Robert Armstrong ("TUAC") [press release account of MT receiving delegation from OECD trade union advisory committee] [released Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Bernard Ingham minute to Robert Armstrong ("Economic Summit") ["We recognised at the outset this would be an electioneering summit"; 'outrageous' US demands re: media; risk of MT being accused of stage-managing summit to aid Reagan re-election] [released Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 (British Aerospace: GEC takeover bid) ["It may be of use if I set out the line which we have adopted in all approaches from GEC"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("British Aerospace") ["some thoughts on the Thorn EMI prospective bid... and on the possible interest of GEC"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental affairs: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Presentation on Acid Deposition - Chequers 27 May 12.00") [background; handling; conclusions; attendees] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 note to MT (Poverty and Unemployment Traps) [Policy Unit note following Seminar on Industry & Employment] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Joseph, Walker, Jenkin, Tom King, Cockfield, Lord Young, Redwood, Gregson) ["Seminar on Industry and Employment"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Middle East: National Security Planning Group minutes (1330Z) ("Gulf War") (NSPG 0090) [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 84 May 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: King paper for MT (“The balance of power in Trade Unions”) [MT: “we shall need a more intellectually rigorous paper than this”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Environment: Chief Scientific Adviser minute for MT (Chequers seminar on acid rain) [briefing, MT notes, slide presentation] [released 2014]
PDF 84 May 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Milton Friedman letter to Ralph Harris (deficits and inflation)
PDF 84 May 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Pascall minute to Turnbull ("The Coal Dispute") [miners' strike: power station endurance, oil burn, imports, open-cast mining, public presentation, ending the strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull note to MT (upcoming meeting on "Aspects of the Coal Dispute") [miners' strike: NCB's gameplan and other issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: MT letter to Richard von Weizsäcker (congratulations on his election as the President of the FRG) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Department of Transport letter to Stuart Connolly (“United Kingdom/Republic of Ireland Land Border”) [post at Newry] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Liverpool City Council letter to Joseph (“1. Liverpool 2. County Secondary Re-Organisation”) [“the adoption of any one of the possible options which you outlined would effectively destroy the purpose of the Authority’s original proposals”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Tebbit minute to MT (“Visit to the west coast of the United States”) [“The combination of economic recovery in the US and a favourable exchange rate provide a unique opportunity for our firms”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Inland Revenue letter to FCO (“Unitary tax - handling at the Summit”) [should be raised at bilateral with Reagan and foreign ministers’ satellite meetings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Lord Leven letter to MT (debt question) [attempt to press matter on the US delegation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Olof Palme letter to MT (EFTA declaration) [cooperation on economic situation, relations with European Community countries] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: UKE Washington telegram 1640 to FCO (2330Z) (“The Gulf: US Policy”) [US military intervention] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Bishop Tutu letter to MT (Botha’s visit to the UK) [“I am writing to express our sense of shock”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Hong Kong Government telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: remarks to the Press by Deng Xiaoping”) [“There should be troops in Hong Kong”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 May 26 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 May 26 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Helmut Kohl message to MT (participation of German ministers) [need for both finance and economics ministers to attend and participate, would not be setting a precedent] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 26 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: FCO telegram to Foreign Secretary (“Iran-Iraq: Attacks on Gulf Shipping”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 26 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UMELCO letter to No.10 (UMELCO statement on future of Hong Kong) [results of Hong Kong public survey on support for the statement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 26 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe telegram to UKE Beijing (“Future of Hong Kong: message to Chinese Foreign Minister on negotiation of annexes”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 May 27 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 May 27 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 record of conversation ("Record of a Presentation on Acid Deposition") [MT, Jenkin, Kenneth Baker, William Waldegrave, Nicholas Eden, David Pascall, Walter Marshall, Peter Chester, John Mason, Hermann Bondi, Martin Holdgate, Robin Nicholson] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 27 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Environment: Chief Scientific Officer’s programme (Chequers seminar on acid rain) [presentations] [released 2014]
Text 84 May 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 May 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, Waldegrave, Kenneth Baker, Nicholas Eden, Walter Marshall, Robin Nicholson, David Pascall & others) ["Acid Rain"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France/EC: interview with Dumas") [European political union; EC budget imbalance] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Foreign Secretary minute to MT ("Expenditure on Overseas Activities") [comments on overseas expenditure copied only to MT and Cabinet Secretary] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Foreign Secretary minute to MT ("Expenditure on Overseas Activities") [comments on overseas expenditure copied only to MT and Cabinet Secretary] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Foreign Secretary minute to MT ("Expenditure on Overseas Activities") [report on expenditure overseas for which the FCO is responsible] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Ultey note to Alison (meeting with Prior) [response to Forum report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Vienna telegram to FCO (Brioni message on Austrian concerns) [“the most urgent action is required to shore up confidence in the international financial system”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Gaborone to FCO (“Botswana Aide Memoire on Relations with South Africa”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Namibia: President Diouf of Senegal letter to MT (independence) [UK pressure on South Africa] [released 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: David Barclay minute to MoD (40th Anniversary of D-Day) [Labour raising issue of war widows attending the ceremonies; 50 places being made available] [released Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Argentina/France: Exocets") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Younger minute to MT ("The Bus Industry") ["On reflection, I think it would be better to have a single White Paper covering the whole of Great Britain"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental affairs: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Acid Rain") [MT request for defensive briefing for Economic Summit] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Efficiency Unit minute to FCO ("Review of the BBC External Services") [present review as something normal and not a backdoor way of cutting down the External Services] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Seminar on Industry and Employment") ["checklist of conclusions and matters to be followed up"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("British Shipbuilders: Board Salaries") [recommendations for 83/84 & 84/85] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Lamont letter to Rees (future of the BP rig at Scott Lithgow) [financial basis for British Shipbuilding decision to renegotiate contract] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker letter to Rees ("Nationalised Industries Bill") [outline of reservations about content of the Bill] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("East Coast Main Line Electrification") [advice to resist BR case/Ridley proposal to uncouple ECML electrification proposal from the viability of Inter-City] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Lord Hailsham ("Tenure in the Universities") [outline of principles & aims underlying proposed legislation to weaken academic tenure] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Police: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Brittan ("Police Pay") ["disregard" and police recruitment pay levels] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Letwin minute to Barclay (“The balance of power in unions”) [comments on King’s paper] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Hayek letter to MT (Birthday Honours) [Hayek accepts MT's offer]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: HMT note ("Effect of Miners' Strike on April Trade Figures") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Stoker briefing for MT ("Coal: MISC 101(84)17th Meeting") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Coal Dispute: Financial Implications and the Rebuilding of Stocks") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Redwood minute for MT (“State of the Economy”) [the USA, interest rates, bond and equity markets, UK situation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“State of the Economy”) [“The best stance for the UK to follow remains that of caution”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong PS minute to John Coles (“International TUC Delegation”) [TUAC statement, final composition of delegation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: John Coles minute to MT (“Your Bilateral Meeting with President Reagan”) [hour for talks and a working dinner; would be useful to have a record but understands if MT wants to be alone with Reagan] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to John Coles (“London Economic Summit: Message from Mrs Gandhi”) [MT to reply before the Summit so that she can “avoid having to take up the issues of substance raised by the Indian Prime Minister”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: ICC Vice Chairman letter to MT (“London Summit”) [“If recovery is to be sustained, we need to help other governments resist protectionist measures and tackle the problems of indebtedness and budget deficits with new vigour”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UN Secretary-General Perez letter to MT (economic problems) [“The time may have come for governments, banks and debtor companies to search for a more durable way out”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Tebbit PS minute to FCO (“London Economic Summit Initiative on the Environment”) [request that the DTI be consulted on any future drafts] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Washington telegram 1659 to FCO (2000Z) (“Secretary of State’s bilaterals with Regan and Larosiere”) [London summit, international debt, interest rates, unitary tax, capital markets, IMF managing director] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Washington telegram 1653 to FCO (1255Z) (“Secretary of State’s dinner with Shultz: Economic Summit”) [terrorism, London Charter, foreign ministers’ meeting] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Washington telegram 1653 to FCO (1255Z) (“Berlin lunch: Economic Summit”) [foreign ministers’ meeting, terrorism, practical issues] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: UKE Washington telegram 1651 to FCO (0345Z) (“Secretary of State’s Dinner with Shultz: Gulf”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Lusaka to FCO (“Visit of South African Prime Minister to London”) [US views] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“Visit of the South African Prime Minister: Anti-Apartheid Movement”) [briefing for MT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Cradock minute to No.10 (“Hong Kong”) [UK/China negotiations: amnesty for political refugees] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 May 30 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 May 30 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: John Coles minute to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Bilateral Meetings during the London Economic Summit") [MT to be accompanied only by a private secretary, and to meet President Reagan alone for 30 minutes] [released Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Mitterrand's Speech to the European Parliament") [analysis; proposed UK response] [declassified Jan 2014]

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