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84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Bermuda: Premier John Swan of Bermuda letter to MT (Commonwealth Heads of Government meetings) [disappointed cannot attend, “we have much to learn … about the workings of independent nations”] [released 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Howe minute to MT ("Western European Union (WEU)") ["... background and state of current discussions of the role of WEU" for Defence White Paper] [declassified Jul* 2016]*
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	G7: Michael Heseltine minute to Peter Rees ("D-Day: 40th Anniversary Celebrations") [arrangements, indemnities] [released Jan 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: FCO record of conversation (Howe-Genscher; "40th Anniversary of D Day") [Gencscher hopes that speeches will "reflect awareness of the need to look more to the future than to the past"] [released Jan 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Foreign Affairs Select Committee: Falklands Inquiry") [MT: "I find it astonishing"] [declassified 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Coles minute to Cabinet Office ("Argentina: Military Capability") [MT's comment] [declassified 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government machinery: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 ("Scrutinies and Value for Money") [Research Councils] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government machinery: Lord Gowrie letter to Jopling (Efficiency Studies of Common Activities) [proposals; registries/office technology; integration of exercises] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign policy: No.10 letter to Foreign Secretary PS ("British Policy in Antarctica: Minerals") [approach to Antarctic Treaty meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	France: FCO letter to No.10 ("No-Passport Excursions: France") [French desire to amend no-passport excursion arrangements] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	National Health: Professor Donald Longmore letter to Sir Hector Laing (invitation to the Prime Minister to open the National Heart & Chest Hospital's CORDA NMR Unit) ["your putting the case personally to... [MT] is the best way of explaining the importance of this prestigious project"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Parliament: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Tim Flesher ("Pesticides Legislation") ["an urgent need... Extending the scope of the proposed Pollution Bill... [would produce] a much better balanced Bill"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Portugal: No.10 minute to FCO (Prime Minister's Visit to Portugal) [note on aspects of the historical background to MT visit] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Portugal: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to Portugal: Portugese Accession to the EEC") [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	United Nations: John Coles note to MT (International Conference of Population: the World Population Plan of Action) [final draft of MT statement, to be delivered at Dinner for UN Administrative Committee on Coordinaton, on 16 April: UK "fully subscribes to the principles"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("UK/Soviet Relations") ["revised guidelines for contacts between British Ministers and Soviet representatives in London"; "other areas where we are moving forward... [towards] increased contact at all levels"] [declassified Dec 2018]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Ministerial Contacts with the Soviet Union") ["social and business contacts between Ministers and the Russians in London... modified guidelines"; Ministerial visits to USSR] [declassified Dec 2018]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Keith Joseph ("Teachers' Pay (England and Wales) 1984") [Government negotiating line/ceiling for pay settlements; arbitration] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: John Coles minute to MT ("East-West: A New Initiative?") [MT unimpressed by 'Finlandisation of Europe' proposal] [released Dec 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	WW2: Alison note to Lord Trefgarne (memorial service oration to Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris) [MT: “I am NOT the right person to do it”] [released 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Coal: David Hart note for MT (“The Inevitable Conflict”) [“the motivation will be opposition to your policies in general and you in person”; against concessions to avoid strike] [released 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	France: President Mitterrand letter to MT (thanks for book on Chequers) [character of residence] [released 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 11th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("CEGB Power Station Endurance") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("Coal: MISC 101(84)11th Meeting") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local government: Department of Trade and Industry briefing (meeting with Liverpool councillors) [“if Liverpool City Council fail to decide on a valid budget and rate as soon as possible, then Liverpool’s problems would not be eased but made far worse”] [released Dec 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local government: MT draft letter to John Hamilton (Liverpool council budget) [“The interests of the people of Liverpool … cannot be advanced by the adoption of an illegal rate”] [released Dec 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	US: No.10 letter to US Ambassador to West Germany (speech to the Industrie Club: ‘The American Trade Deficit in Perspective’) [MT: “applies your customary clarity & wisdom to the enormous issues that face us”] [declassified 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Michael Quinlan essay: ‘The ethics of nuclear deterrence: a criticism of the United States bishops’ letter’) [revised text for possible publication] [declassified 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Secretary of State’s discussions with Wu Xueqian on 16 April”) [Howe visit to Hong Kong & China] [declassified 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: No.10 letter to Jenkin PS (abolition of the GLC and the MCCs) [MT&#58 “Excellent - we must push ahead vigorously”] [declassified 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Association of London Authorities”) [GLC association with ALA unlawful] [declassified 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Rates Bill: exclusions from operation of general rate limitation scheme”) [“political trouble” if mishandled] [declassified 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Minor	Margaret Thatcher	Speech at dinner for Heads of UN Organisations

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