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Info only 85 Apr 4 Th Chronology Minor [Chronology] MT began tour of Far East (returned 14 Apr)
Text 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (R&D priorities across Government) ["There is currently no formal mechanism for taking a collective view... I believe we need to... find a way of offering Ministerial guidance..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Helmut Kohl message to MT (Bonn Economic Summit) ["Economic issues should again be at the forefront of our discussions"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: MT letter to Lord Rothschild (thanks for report on Local Authority Finance) ["Your contribution ... has had precisely the effect which I hoped for. ... fresh eye ... incisive approach ... I hope that you will keep a fatherly eye on the infant's development"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Value for Money Seminars") [MT: "D.H.S.S. has enough on its hands already"; suggests running seminar with a different department] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MT letter to Chairman of the Football Association, Bert Millichip (football hooliganism) [FA and Government actions to tackle football violence] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: MT message to Jerry Wiggin (Westland helicopters) [replacement of RAF Puma & Wessex helicopters] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: George Younger minute to MT ("Assassination and Death in Service") ["The question of the benefits payable to the dependants... is emotive, and changes made in one scheme for particular circumstances... tend to have a ripple effect. The problem of where and how to stop..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Howe minute to MT ("Assassination and Death in Service") [objection to Rees minute being sent to MT prematurely before FCO/Treasury bilateral discussions concluded; comments on officials' report & thoughts on way forward] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to Chair of United Technologies Corporation (RAF Basic Trainer Aircraft) [background to Government's decision to place the order with Short Brothers, Belfast] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Ridley minute to MT ("British Airways Flotation") [progress report; impact of Laker Airways liquidator anti-trust law suits in US courts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Capital Spending and Infrastructure") [recommendations; MT suggests that she circulate a paper to Cabinet] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT message to Prime Minister Soares (Accession of Portugal to the EC) [message of congratulations on conclusion of negotiations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT message to Prime Minister González Márquez (Accession of Spain to the EC) [message of congratulations on conclusion of negotiations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Enlargement") [conclusion of negotiations: "how the outcome compares with the objectives identified at... [MT's] ad hoc meeting of Ministers last September... satisfactory results for UK interests"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 ("Letter from Mr Michael Nightingale, Chairman of the Anglo-Indonesian Corporation to the Prime Minister") [request for MT to raise issue during her visit to Indonesia] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: Tebbit minute to MT ("Mercury: Procurement Policy and Telecommunications") [case for Departmental procurement decisions in favour of Mercury, in interests of "establishment of vigorous competition"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Howe minute to Heseltine ("Customs Relief on Imports of Defence Equipment") [if ECJ rules against Britain end result "could only be to reduce the resources available for the European Allies to devote to defence"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Rees minute to MT (“BNFL pre-1971 Wastes”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: MT letter to Mrs Hackett, wife of working miner (condemns intimidation of working miners) ['The miners who stood up for their right to work were defending a fundamental privilege of a free people'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Budd letter to Ricketts (Youth of the World statue) [MT’s message for inscription] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Chairman of the BBC letter to Brittan (treatment of capital expenditure in published accounts) [will obtain an independent opinion on whether practices need to change] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan to Gorbachev (value of “political meetings” in building trust) [declassified 2000]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (her conversation with President Machel in Moscow) [shares his concern at failure of SA fully to support Nkomati Accord] [declassified 2014]
CD only 85 Apr 4 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Interview for Evening Standard
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