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	Margaret Thatcher
		Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC (born 13 October 1925), is a British politician, the first woman to become leader of the British Conservative Party and the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, a position she held from 1979 to 1990.
		Thatcher was one of few Conservative MPs to support the Bill to decriminalise male homosexuality, and she voted in favour of the principle of David Steel's Bill to legalise abortion.
		Thatcher had made preparations for the strike by building up coal stocks and there were no power cuts, and picket line violence combined with the fact that the NUM had not held a ballot to approve action to swing public opinion on her side.
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	Encyclopedia: Margaret Thatcher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Thatcher served as Secretary of State for Education and Science in the government of Edward Heath from 1970 to 1974, and successfully challenged Heath for the Conservative leadership in 1975.
		Thatcher was born Margaret Hilda Roberts in the town of Grantham in Lincolnshire in eastern England.
		Thatcher was one of few Conservative MPs to support the Bill to decriminalize male homosexuality, and she voted in favour of David Steel's Bill to legalize abortion.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Margaret-Thatcher (11684 words)

	Margaret Thatcher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baron ess Thatcher, LG OM (born 13 October 1925) is a British politician, the first woman to become leader of the British Conservative Party and the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, a position she held from 1979 to 1990.
		Thatcher was one of few Conservative MPs to support the Bill to decriminalise male homosexuality, and she voted in favour of the principle of David Steel 's Bill to legalise abortion.
		Thatcher was committed to reducing the power of the trade union s but unlike the Heath government, proceeded by way of incremental change rather than a single Act.
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	Margaret Thatcher Article, MargaretThatcher Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Thatcher was committed to reducing the power of the trade unions butunlike the Heath government, proceeded by way of incremental change rather than a single Act.
		Thatcher had made preparations for the strike by building up coal stocksand there were no power cuts, and picket line violence, combined with the fact that the NUM had not held a ballot to approve strike action,contrived to swing public opinion on her side.
		Critics also argue that the Thatcher period in government co-incided with a general improvementin the world economy, and the buoyant tax revenues from North Sea oil, which critics contend was the real cause of the improved economic environment of the 1980s and not Margaret Thatcher's policies.
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	John Major - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Right Honourable Sir John Major, KG, CH (born 29 March 1943) is a British politician who served in the Cabinets of Margaret Thatcher as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer before succeeding Thatcher as Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1990 to 1997.
		He entered the Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 1987, and in a surprise re-shuffle on July 31, 1989, a relatively inexperienced John Major was appointed Foreign Secretary, succeeding Geoffrey Howe.
		Since leaving office Major has, in marked contrast to his predecessor (Margaret Thatcher), tended to take a low profile and to stay out of front-line politics, contributing only occasionally from the back benches and indulging his love of cricket as president of Surrey County Cricket Club.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Major (2839 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: One of Us: Life of Margaret Thatcher: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Written to coincide with a Channel 4 series on Lady Thatcher, this biography is based on intimate conversations between the Prime Minister and the major politicians of the period and Hugo Young.
		It traces her life from being an apprentice under Harold Macmillan and her participation in the government of Edward Heath, to her unquestioning destruction of the Conservatism of the 1950s and 1960s and her emergence as a senior stateswoman of the western world.
		Of course, study of the Thatcher years is inseparable from study of her legacy, and the final chapter looks at this exclusively, making it the best in the book, packed with facts and observations.
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	Remember, it took the Wets to make Thatcher what she was
		Thatcherism’s step-by-step approach to whittling away the powers of the unions, picking each battle carefully and on limited ground, should be a textbook case for other European governments today; but left to herself and the company of ministers she regarded as “sound” she would never have done it that way.
		Thatcherism in practice was a subtler force than can be represented by a coachload from the Monday Club mooning at Romano Prodi, or tea and sympathy with General Pinochet.
		I certainly think that Thatcherism has not been well served by some of its more zealous proponents, and this is one of the reasons why she is not wonderfully regarded by many in the country these days, despite the vital things that she did to rescue the UK from the 'sick man of Europe' moniker.
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	What We Can Learn from Margaret Thatcher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Margaret Thatcher believed that these aims would produce economic and fiscal benefits for the people and enable her to use the political process to further the free society in all its aspects.
		As Margaret Thatcher drew the wider electorate into her beliefs, it should be remembered that she had originally had to fight all the way within her own party.
		Margaret Thatcher's populist instinct had made her more cautious in these areas, but after the election success of 1987, when she saw her monetary policies threatened by runaway costs, she introduced dramatic reform in all these areas.
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	ABC News: Margaret Thatcher Turns 80 With Posh Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Margaret Thatcher is holding an 80th birthday bash on Thursday with a guest list that includes one of her successors at 10 Downing St. including current Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Thatcher's office said Tuesday Oct. 11, 2005.
		Thatcher's assistant Gilly Penrose said she was feeling good and was pleased about the milestone birthday.
		The other Tory contenders, front-runner David Cameron and Kenneth Clarke, were not asked to go, prompting speculation that Thatcher was quietly taking sides in the race to head a party that has struggled to find a strong leader since she was forced from office 15 years ago.
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	BBC News \| UK POLITICS \| War cabinets of the past
		The first modern war cabinet was set up in December 1916 by the new Prime Minister David Lloyd George, who had replaced the ineffectual Herbert Asquith as World War One dragged on.
		The war cabinet was dissolved in November 1919 but not before it had instructed the Army, Navy and RAF that they should not expect a "great war" in the next 10 years.
		The Cabinet War Rooms closed after Japan's surrender but were preserved for posterity and are visited by thousands of tourists every year.
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	Amazon.com: The Prime Minister : The Office and Its Holders Since 1945: Books: Peter Hennessy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Thatcher's unrepentant belief in the virtue of a "free market" (which was never really free anyway, not without vicious tariffs against nations unwilling to accept the terms that Thatcher and Reagan demanded) did uncountable damage to British society.
		Thatcher coupled an unjustified pride in her own degree in sciences with a paradoxical contempt for university trained specialists who did not toe her party line, and appealed over their heads to a populace excluded from higher education by the class system.
		Thatcher replaced genuine bottom-up institutions such as the Greater London Council with a government of statistics and numerical objectives easily fudged by insiders, and unexplained to outsiders, which Blair has preserved.
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	JOHN MAJOR FACTS AND INFORMATION
		The_Right_Honourable Sir John Major, KG, CH (born 29_March 1943) is a British politician who served in the Cabinets of Margaret_Thatcher as Chief_Secretary_to_the_Treasury, Foreign Secretary and Chancellor_of_the_Exchequer before succeeding Thatcher as Conservative Party leader and Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom from 1990 to 1997.
		When Michael_Heseltine's challenge to Margaret_Thatcher's leadership of the Conservative Party forced the contest to a second round and Thatcher withdrew, Major entered the contest alongside Douglas_Hurd.
		In February 2005 it was reported that Major and Norman_Lamont were holding up the release of papers on Black_Wednesday under the Freedom of Information Act.
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	The Hindu : Opinion / Editorials : WILL IT OR WON'T IT?
		It is therefore hardly surprising that from the beginning, Britain has been a laggard in the grand European project of integration.
		Britain under Margaret Thatcher signed the Single European Act (1987), which gave a further boost to integration.
		However, strident posturing, ostensibly to protect British national interests, was behind the `Iron Lady' winning the infamous rebate on Britain's contributions to the EU budget.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2005/02/18/stories/2005021802041000.htm (632 words)

	Margaret Thatcher
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		[[Image Link]] By 1990 opposition to Thatcher's policies on taxation, her Government's handling of the economy, her perceived arrogance and her reluctance to commit Britain to economic integration with Europe made her politically vulnerable.
		[[Image Link]] In 1998 she made a highly publicised and controversial visit to the former Chilean dictator General Pinochet during the time he was under house arrest in London facing charges of torture, conspiracy to torture and conspiracy to murder, and expressed her support and friendship for him.
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	Thatcher Ministry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The post of Secretary of State for Transport is brought into the cabinet and Norman Fowler is given the post.
		Lord Young of Graffham enters the cabinet as Minister without Portfolio.
		This page was last modified 09:58, 16 November 2005.
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	One of Us: Life of Margaret Thatcher Book at Shop Ireland
		One of Us: Life of Margaret Thatcher by: Hugo Young
		The World According to Margaret Thatcher (The World According To...)
		Britain Under Thatcher (Seminar Studies in History S.)
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