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PDF 81 Feb 25 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (TNA) US/Central America: FCO public statement ("El Salvador") [USG information pointing to "gross interference in the internal affairs of El Salvador"; condemns violence "from whatever quarter"]
PDF 81 Oct 8 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Pakistan: Press Conference concluding visit to Pakistan
Text 82 Mar 31 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher HC Stmnt: [Brussels European Council] (1430Z)
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Haig MSS) Falklands: White House news summary (1100Z) ("Britain plans naval quarantine of Falklands") ["President Reagan has ordered Secretary Haig to London and Buenos Aires to help mediate the Falkland dispute"] [this copy released Mar 1993]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Haig MSS) Falklands: Haig statement arriving in London (c1300Z) (defines purpose) ["seeking to be of assistance solving the crisis"] [this copy released Mar 1993]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Francis Pym and Casper Weinberger interviews for Thames TV TV Eye ("Falklands: Do they stay British?")
PDF 82 Jun 9 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Ministry of Defence press statement (1100Z) (US tanker Hercules) [suspicion that it was attacked by Argentine C130 aircraft] [released 2013]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) USSR: Gorbachev speech (MT annotations on speech to April plenum of CPSU) ["The whole life and the entire course of history convincingly confirm the great rightness of Leninist doctrine"] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 85 Jun 8 Sa Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (State Department) Middle East: Shultz on the record briefing (Soviet proposal for international conference) [“as far as we are concerned, the objective is direct negotiations”]
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Gorbachev speech to CPSU Central Committee ("The Fundamental Issue of the Party's Economic Policy"; MT annotations) ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 25 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) USSR: Gorbachev speech to CPSU Party Congress [MT, Powell annotations on speech to CPSU congress] ​[released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Radio Interview for BBC (1200Z) (“Mr Tim Renton on World at One, Monday 13 October 1986”) [“what I think is surprising is that President Reagan and Mr Gorbachev did get so far in discussing important details”] [this copy released Dec 2015]
PDF 87 Jan 29 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) USSR: Gorbachev speech to CPSU Central Committee ("On Restructuring and the Party's Cadre Policy") [annotated by MT & Powell] ​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Mar 30 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) USSR: Gorbachev speech at Kremlin dinner (advance text; MT's annotations) ["the evil inherent in 'nuclear deterrence'"] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 May 27 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (State Department) US: White House press release (Reagan interviews on general election) [“the relationship between our two countries does go back many, many years, and I think it would take more than an election in either one of our countries to change that”]
PDF 87 Jun 25 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) USSR: Gorbachev speech to CPSU Central Committee Plenum [MT annotations on speech re: restructuring the economy] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
Text 88 Nov 9 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Letter to President-elect George Bush (congratulations)
PDF 90 Jul 9 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (TNA) G7: President Bush arrival remarks (Houston Summit opening statement) ["the post, post war era ... A new world of freedom lays before us"]
PDF 90 Jul 11 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (TNA) G7: G7 statement (Houston Summit final communiqué) ["We are mindful that freedom and economic prosperity are closely linked and mutually reinforcing"]
PDF 90 Aug 20 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Hurd press conference (Iraq-Kuwait crisis) [British nationals; purpose of allied deployment; possibility of war; UN resolution on enforcement of trade embargo; British officials in Kuwait] [unclassified; released Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 23 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: King-Waldegrave press conference transcript (Gulf crisis) [deployment of additional forces; Iraqi use of Western citizens in Kuwait as military 'shields'] [unclassified; released Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Sep 12 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Chairman of the European Democratic Group speech (Strasbourg, 12 September: Gulf crisis) ["Prompt and courageous action by the United States have protected a vital "out of area" European Community interest which - let's be frank -we were simply not organised to protect on our own"]
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Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

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