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Date: 31 Aug 1979.

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79 Aug 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
79 Aug 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Northern Ireland: Francis Pym to Ian Gow (UUC paper on terrorist trends) [reports “are total nonsense”] [released 2017]
79 Aug 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: Gordon Reece minute for Richard Ryder (MT’s first major tv interview as PM) [now is the time] [released 2010]
79 Aug 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economy: Lankester minute to Treasury (executive perks) [CBI "anxious to help"] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economy: Draft letter from Methven to Chancellor of the Exchequer (executive perks) [CBI "endorses the Government's objective of reducing perks"] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial policy: MT letter to US Senator Russell Long (employee stock ownership) [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Death of Mountbatten: FCO letter to No.10 ("Death of Mountbatten: President Carter's Message") ["we have been struck by the lack of reference in [Carter's] message to the circumstances of Lord Mountbatten's death"] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Meeting Between Prime Minister and Mr Lynch") [assessment of the impact of Mountbatten's murder on Lynch and Irish Government] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Trivial	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: Stephens note to MT ("Service at St. Paul's Cathedral to Commemorate the Great Soldiers of World War II") [MT: "I must go and should like to go"] [released 2010]
79 Aug 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: Chilcot minute to Duguid ("Inner London Magistrates' Courts Strike") [declassified 2010]
79 Aug 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	New Hebrides: FCO letter to No.10 ("New Hebrides Constitutional Conference") [Blaker tour] [declassified 2010]
79 Aug 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aid: Carrington minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Effect on Rhodesia Policy of Cuts in the 1979/1980 Aid Programme") [MT: "Cuts? But we agreed there has been an increase of 2% in real terms"] [declassified 2010]
79 Aug 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: Department of the Environment letter to No.10 ("Proposed Tour by South African Barbarians Rugby Club") [declassified 2010]
79 Aug 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	National Health: Patrick Jenkin minute for Michael Jopling (“Health Service (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill”) [declassified 2015]
79 Aug 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Vietnam: Alexander minute to MT ("Vietnamese Refugees") [resettlement of Vietnamese refugees in the UK] [declassified 2011]
79 Aug 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Vietnam: FCO letter to No.10 ("Vietnamese Refugees: MV British Resolution") [declassified 2011]
79 Aug 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Vietnam: FCO letter to No.10 ("Vietnamese Refugees: MV Rudd Bank") [declassified 2011]
79 Aug 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 2515 to FCO (2350Z) ("U.S. Attitudes to Northern Ireland") [Warrenpoint ambush and murder of Lord Mountbatten: influencing US opinion] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: Atkins minute to MT ("Political Progress in Northern Ireland") [MT comment on Atkins' plan: "No - this has not even been discussed with Cabinet"] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: Atkins minute to MT ("Northern Ireland: Security Directorate") [extensive comments by MT: "I find this memo somewhat confusing"] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: Atkins note to MT (Atkins to spend next two weeks in Northern Ireland) [follow-up to Warrenpoint ambush and Mountbatten murder: "I shall be trying to resist any other cause to come to London in order to have a solid spell moving about the Province"] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 31 Fr	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Minor	Margaret Thatcher	Remarks visiting the North West (defending economic policy)
79 Aug 31 Fr	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Minor	Margaret Thatcher	TV Interview for BBC visiting Rawtenstall (cooperation with Irish Republic)
79 Aug 31 Fr	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Minor	Margaret Thatcher	Radio Interview for BBC Radio Blackburn (Northern Ireland)
79 Aug 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: President Nyerere of Tanzania letter to MT (decolonisation process) [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 ("Rhodesian Representation in London: Message from Bishop Muzorewa") [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Carrington minute to MT ("Rhodesia: Constitutional Conference") [conference tactics] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2010]
79 Aug 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Government Broker's daily report (market conditions & official activity in the gilt-market) [declassified 2010]

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