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Info only 85 Nov 19 Tu Chronology Major [Chronology] Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Geneva (ended 21 Nov)
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS (visit by Canadian Governor-General) [timing of possible meeting] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Assassination and Death or Injury in Service") [summary of outcomes from interdepartmental review into compensation provisions for dependants of civil servants killed by terrorists] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris record of conversation (MacRae-Joxe) [French internal situation] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 3925 to FCO (2005Z) ("InterGovernmental Conference: Brussels 19 November 1985") [report] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Own Resources Decision: UK Notification of Adoption") [to proceed without delay] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Walker minute to MT ("Gas Industry Privatisation") [regulatory regime for gas industry following privatisation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKMIS Geneva telegram 423 to FCO (1434Z) ("Reagan/Gorbachev Summit: News Blackout") [details] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to Secretary General of NATO ("Reagan/Gorbachev Summit: News Blackout") [President Reagan to address NATO meeting on outcomes of US/Soviet summit: handling of the meeting] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3188 to FCO (0050Z) ("The Anglo-Irish Agreement: US press reactions") ["In American news terms... a one day wonder... guarded optimism"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("The Anglo-Irish Agreement: Dail Debate") [text of the Irish Government motion & Fianna Fail amendment; No.10: "Helpful at least in showing what the Agreement does not do"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: statement by Irish Catholic Bishops") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Jeremy Thorpe (Anglo-Irish Agreement) [courtesy letter of thanks for his congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Senator Orrin G. Hatch letter to MT (Anglo-Irish Agreement) [congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to Northern Ireland Office ("Anglo/Irish Agreement: Parliamentary Debate") [draft MT speech] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to Solicitor General PS (Anglo/Irish Agreement: Parliamentary Debate) [letter of thanks for Mayhew's assistance with drafting of speech] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Prime Minister Mulroney letter to MT (Anglo/Irish Agreement) [congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Tom King letter to No.10 (Anglo/Irish Agreement) ["I am trying to focus on all the pitfalls of the Statement"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Barney Hayhoe letter to Whitelaw ("Social Services Select Committee Report on Public Expenditure") ["The draft reply... [emphasises] the importance of service output rather than expenditure as a measure of NHS growth, and... [highlights] the role of efficiency in achieving service improvements"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands at the UN General Assembly") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Ministerial Group on Social Security Meeting on 20 November 1985 (MISC 111(85)17: Income Related Benefits") [modifications to Fowler's Social Security reform proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: John MacGregor minute to MT ("Social Security Reviews: Income Related Benefits") ["The proposals which Norman Fowler is recommending... cost nearly £300 million more than those we agreed as the basis for the Green Paper... If we get it wrong now, we will have to cope with the consequences"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 briefing for MT ("MISC111: Social Security Review") [details of two reform package options & their respective costs] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Social Security Reviews: Pensioner Losers") ["Fowler is right that pensioner losers present a real political problem, but... it is not as bad as he claims; and... there is a better way of dealing with it than his proposal"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Social Security Reviews: Family Credit") ["Fowler has not yet made out a strong enough case for spending more"] [released Dec 2014]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: State Department memorandum for NSC (“Public Diplomacy, South Africa”) [declassified 1999]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [autumn statement, fraud, international finance scene] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Lawson minute for Howe (his meeting with Nigerian Financial Minister) [pressing Nigeria to a deal with the IMF] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Howe minute for Lawson (“Nigeria: Your Meeting with the Finance Minister”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Terrorism: Howe minute to Hurd (“Tanzanian hijackers”) [“our decision to allow the Tanzanians to remain in the United Kingdom is a result of undertakings given here in 1982”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Washington minute to FCO (1415Z) ("US/Italy relations in the wake of the Achille Lauro affair") [detailed read-out from State Department] [declassified Jan 2010]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 1st Session [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 2nd Session [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (tea party between the First Ladies) [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 3rd Session [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (dinner table talk) [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (impromptu dinner toasts) [declassified 2000]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker minute to MT (“Liverpool: Progress Report”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Robert Armstrong minute to No.10 (message from McFarlane) [McFarlane proposes to give classified briefings to UK figures] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Security: Armstrong minute for Flesher (GCHQ dispute) [update] [released 2015]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
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