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PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Geoffrey Pattie minute to MT (“Anti-misting kerosene”) [“a fuel additive which will prevent aircraft crash fires”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 briefing for MT (“Seminar on Local Government”) [Jenkin review] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 27 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 27 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 3203 to FCO (0306Z) ("US Congressional Elections") [analysis & predictions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 27 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Falklands: Alfonsin's Visit to Italy") [Alfonsin put great pressure on Craxi to vote for the Argentine resolution] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 28 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 28 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: UKE Washington telegram 3204 to FCO (0353Z) ("Laker Consultations") [negotiations for "a permanent arrangement to prevent the US antitrust laws undermining the smooth working of the bilateral aviations relationship"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 28 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Fowler letter to Rees ("Supplementary Benefit for Strikers") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 28 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Waldegrave, Terry Heiser, Oliver Letwin, Turnbull) [“Local government finance”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Rees PS letter to No.10 ("1983-84 Scrutiny of Running Costs") [PQ; publication] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gowrie, Heseltine, Jenkin, Ridley, Rees, Lamont, Raison, Ibbs, Baroness Young, Tony Newton, David Waddington) ["Government Purchasing"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Cradock & Powell) [East-West relations, Middle East, Southern Africa, SDI, arms control, China, Pakistan and Germany] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("CBI Conference") [enhanced security following Brighton Bomb: Police advise that it is unsafe for MT to attend reception] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: David Mellor PS letter to No.10 (Drug Misuse) [copy of 'aide-mémoire' briefing pack] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Policy Unit minute to No.10 ("Cammell Laird") [Type 22 Frigate orders should not be given to Cammell Laird] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Leon Brittan, Whitelaw, Biffen, Wakeham) [Police and Criminal Evidence Bill: MT opposed to Lord Scarman's proposed amendment on racial discrimination] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("The Flick Affair and political corruption in the FRG") ["Following Barzel's resignation, the Opposition... have turned their guns on the Chancellor"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Review of Anglo/German relations: appointment of Mr Nigel Forman MP") [does not go ahead following MT criticism of Howe's choice] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UK Ambassador Bonn minute to Head of Chancery ("Chancellor Kohl") ["By moving a Wagnerian soprano out of the way I was able to get a chair next to Kohl's... we must persevere in the attempt to understand [him]..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Hurd minute to Rees ("Short Brothers PLC") [adjustment for increase in EFL; RAF trainer contract; proposal for small manufacturing facility in West Belfast] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: FCO telegram to UKE San Jose ("Nicaraguan election observers") [details of British Parliamentary delegation] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Powell minute to FCO ("Falklands Vote at the UN") [MT's messages to EC Heads of Government: decided against sending one to Mitterrand] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Berne telegram to FCO ("Relations with Argentina") [Federal Councillor Aubert's account of his visit to Buenos Aires] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Armstrong letter to Whitmore (History of the naval campaign in the Falklands) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Michael Hesletine minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Ministerial Group on Public Expenditure (MISC 106): The Defence Programme") [spending settlement for 1985-88] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("MISC 106: State of Play") [progress made in "what we knew would be an extremely difficult task"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Ministerial Group on Public Expenditure (MISC) 106 Foreign and Commonwealth Office Programmes") [demands on FCO resources] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Charles Powell minute to MT ("FCO Expenditure") [impact of exchange rate fluctation and overseas inflation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Scrutiny of internal talent: promotion blockages") ["You wanted to be sure we were doing all we could to bring on able junior staff"; progress report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Lord Cockfield minute to MT ("My Appointment as a European Commissioner") ["contention that my membership of the House of Lords disqualifies me"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to Howe PS ("Ad Hoc Committee on Institutions") [MT "hopes that... [UK] support does not extend to the introduction of majority voting and is also dubiuous about taking on a formal commitment to consult"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("European Council") [key points to relay at upcoming meeting of Foreign Ministers in Ireland, including Howe's desire to have an official present at meetings to take minutes] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Attorney-General letter to King (“Part II of the Trade Union Act”) [NACODS’ ballot revealing need for amendment of Act] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 46th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Monday 29 October 1984") [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Bill Robinson briefing paper ("Economic Background to the Coal Dispute") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Rees letter to Brittan ("Miners' Dispute: Policing Costs") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 letter to DHSS ("Payment of Strikers' Housing Costs") [miners' strike: MT's comments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("Meeting with Working Miners") [miners' strike; MT: "it will be difficult to refuse" to meet working miners groups] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker letter to Rees ("NCB Deficit Grant") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Policy: Sherbourne minute (meeting with Special Advisers) [question of manifesto for third term “would get away from coal and would allow the discussion to range fairly widely”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Howe PS minute to Coles (“Call by Lord Moran”) [Moran “will no doubt wish to discuss the ways in which Britain could pay more attention to Canada”] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Hungary: FCO minute to No.10 (“Call by Matyas Szuros, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party, on MT”) [possible visit by Hungarian Foreign Minister] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin minute to MT (“The Association of London Authorities”) [legal issues] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Jenkin letter to Lord Hailsham ("24th Report of the Law Reform Committee Latent Damage") [recommendations; follow-up] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: UKE Washington telegram 3221 to FCO (2159Z) ("Laker") [Wright, Dam: record of conversation: US/UK consultations on future arrangements] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Chairman of the European Democratic Group (VAT and foodstuffs) [offers assurances that UK government will not impose VAT on UK foodstuffs, and that EC will not enforce imposition] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin minute to MT ("Planning System") [response to Sir John Sainsbury's proposals for reform] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: DHSS letter to No.10 ("The Health Service in England: Annual Report 1984") [press notice on publication of report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: Overseas Development Administration letter to Powell ("VSO and Oxfam") [Government funding for Voluntary Service Overseas and Oxfam] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Lord Hailsham minute to MT ("House of Commons Select Committee on Procedure") [review of evidence submission procedure] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Wakeham PS letter to No.10 (Government precedence for opening Debates on Government days) [MT concern about Labour opening recent debate on unemployment] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Biffen minute to MT ("Release of Documents to Select Committees") [review of rules & conventions; Tebbit agrees reluctantly to Biffen proposals, following recent disagreement between Govt and Committee over release of British Shipbuilders documents] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Central America: National Security Council Minutes (1930Z) ("Contadora Process") (NSC 0110) [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UK Ambassador Bonn minute to Head of Chancery (for circulation as necessary) ("Breakfast with Strauss") [doesn't go down well] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Athens telegram to FCO ("Falklands") [the Greeks have decided to abstain at the UN vote] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Brussels telegram to FCO ("Falklands") [Belgium to abstain on the Falklands resolution as in previous years] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Tam Dalyell MP letter to MT (circumstances surrounding the sinking of the Belgrano) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robin Nicholson minute to MT ("MISC 106: R&D Expenditure") [group did not recommend that spending should be halved] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") ["a substantial shortfall has emerged"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (Public Expenditure) [different categories of spending] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker) [gas and electricity industries and spending savings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Howe-Lawson-Rees) [FCO spending savings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Michael Hesletine minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Public Expenditure Survey") [latest proposed figures are an improvement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey 1984") ["the remaining task is formidable"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to Howe PS ("Ad Hoc Committee on Institutions") [MT "alarmed by some of the ideas which are being aired in this committee"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham note to MT (good interview with Birmingham Post ) [“‘Mrs Thatcher: the unshakeable PM’”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Channon memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 31 (Tornados for Turkey) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: David Williamson minute for Charles Powell (“Anglo-German Summit”) [counter German sense of British negativity about EC] [declassified 2015]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker-King-Alison-Smith-Butler-Turnbull) [miners' strike: latest developments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 30 October 1984") [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Lamont letter to Rees ("Miners' Strike: Policing Costs") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: BBC news transcript ("Miner/Iain Bain") [miners' strike: report on attempt of Iain Bain to return to work] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Payment of Strikers' Housing Costs") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Gordon Reece note to MT (“Director of Publicity’) [“need a man or woman with imagination, class and an outstanding political flair”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Women: MT letter to Florence Nagle (thanks for gift) [“deeply impressed by all that you have achieved in working for the rights of women”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 note to Department of the Environment (“Meeting with the Bishop and Archbishop of Liverpool”) [request for briefings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office letter to Ministerial Private Secretaries (“Ministerial Correspondence and Memoranda for Cabinet and Cabinet Committees”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office letter to Antony Acland (Parliamentary Private Secretaries and the media) [procedure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“Durban”) [detention orders in British Consulate: next steps] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Matyas Szuros, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers) [economic reform in Hungary, UK-Hungarian relations, East-West relations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: MT letter to Lord Rothschild (Local government finance and functions) [request for ‘outside’ expertise] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull (“RSG settlement 1985/86”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Ridley PS letter to Howe PS ("Aviation and US Antitrust: The 'Laker' Issue") [report on talks with US] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 845 to FCO (1530Z) ("Death of Mrs Gandhi") [announcement on new PM, identity of assailants, religious violence] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 843 to FCO (1010Z) ("Mrs Gandhi") [confirmation Gandhi "died as a result of the injuries received in the assassination attempt"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKE Islamabad telegram 676 to FCO (0815Z) ("Assassination Attempt on Mrs Gandhi") [President Zia statement: "heard with deep shock and horror the news"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) India: Charles Powell note to MT (Mrs Gandhi's death) [making a statement would be an important mark of respect] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Mrs Gandhi's Death: Reaction of UK Sikhs") [MT statement, message to Ranjiv Gandhi] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Lamont letter to MT ("Austin Rover") [strike action threatened] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Malaysia: MT message to Prime Minister Mahathir of Malaysia (best wishes on installation of new Yang di-Pertuan Agong as Malaysian Head of State) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Justice: Brittan PS letter to No.10 ("Prison Service industries and farms") [reforms] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Adam Butler minute to MT ("Redundancies at the Royal Ordnance factories") ["Already the Trade Unions have announced plans for 'walk out'... No doubt, this has much to do with their antipathy towards our privatisation proposals..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with Chancellor”) [Walker; public expenditure; post-mortem on unemployment debate] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD letter to No.10 (MT's draft reply to George Foulkes: the sinking of the Belgrano) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Falklands at the UN General Assembly") [France to maintain its abstention] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Taoiseach letter to MT (Falklands vote at the UN) [gives MT notice that Ireland will abstain] [declassified 2014]

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