The Downing Street Years, 1979-1990
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Аннотация
This first volume of Margaret Thatcher’s memoirs encompasses the whole of her time as Prime Minister — the formation of her goals in the early 1980s, the Falklands, the General Election victories of 1983 and 1987 and, eventually, the circumstances of her fall from political power. She also gives frank accounts of her dealings with foreign statesmen and her own ministers.
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- Dedication
- Introduction
- CHAPTER I Over the Shop First days and early decisions as Prime Minister
- TO THE PALACE
- 10 DOWNING STREET
- LIFE ‘OVER THE SHOP’
- INSIDE DOWNING STREET
- CABINET-MAKING
- OTHER APPOINTMENTS
- EARLY DECISIONS
- VISIT OF HELMUT SCHMIDT
- WORKING WEEKEND
- CHAPTER II Changing Signals Domestic politics in the first six months — until the end of 1979
- THE FIRST QUEEN ’S SPEECH
- THE 1979 BUDGET
- CIVIL SERVICE REFORM
- PUBLIC SPENDING
- IRISH TERRORIST OUTRAGES
- CHAPTER III Into the Whirlwind Foreign affairs during the first eighteen months in 1979 –1980
- BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
- THE STRASBOURG EUROPEAN COUNCIL
- THE TOKYO G7 SUMMIT
- THE RHODESIAN SETTLEMENT
- THE EC BUDGET AGREEMENT OF 1980
- CRISES IN THE MIDDLE EAST
- CHAPTER IV Not At All Right, Jack The restructuring of British industry and trade union reform in 1979 –1980
- BRITAIN ’S INDUSTRIAL PROBLEMS
- THE 1980 BUDGET AND THE MEDIUM TERM FINANCIAL STRATEGY (MTFS)
- FIRST STEPS OF TRADE UNION REFORM: THE 1980 EMPLOYMENT ACT
- THE 1980 STEEL STRIKE
- BRITISH LEYLAND: 1979 –1980
- CHAPTER V Not for Turning Politics and the economy in 1980 –1981
- NO U-TURNS
- ARGUMENTS ABOUT PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
- DISSENT BY LEAKS
- THE 1981 BUDGET
- THE COAL STRIKE WHICH NEVER WAS
- THE URBAN RIOTS OF 1981
- MORE CABINET DISSENT AND THE SEPTEMBER 1981 RESHUFFLE
- THE 1981 CONSERVATIVE PARTY CONFERENCE
- CHAPTER VI The West and the Rest The early reassertion of western — and British — influence in international affairs in 1981–1982
- EARLY TALKS WITH PRESIDENT REAGAN
- VISITS TO INDIA AND THE GULF
- THE OTTAWA G7
- MELBOURNE CHOGM AND VISIT TO PAKISTAN
- CANC ÚN NORTH-SOUTH SUMMIT
- CHAPTER VII The Falklands War: Follow the Fleet The attempts by diplomacy and the sending of the task force to regain the Falkland Islands — to the end of April 1982
- BACKGROUND
- WEEK ONE
- WEEK TWO
- WEEK THREE
- WEEK FOUR
- WEEK FIVE
- CHAPTER VIII The Falklands: Victory The battle for the Falklands in May and June 1982
- WEEK SIX
- WEEK SEVEN
- WEEK EIGHT
- CHAPTER IX Generals, Commissars and Mandarins Meeting the military and political challenge of communism from the autumn of 1979 to the spring of 1983
- PEACE AND ARMAMENTS
- THE MILITARY BALANCE
- INTERMEDIATE-RANGE NUCLEAR WEAPONS (INF)
- THE PURCHASE OF TRIDENT
- THE DEFENCE REVIEW
- THE POLISH CRISIS
- THE VERSAILLES G7 SUMMIT
- THE BONN NATO SUMMIT, JUNE 1982
- HONG KONG AND CHINA
- THE BERLIN WALL
- CHAPTER X Disarming the Left Winning the arguments and formulating the policies for a second term — 1982–1983
- THE POLITICAL SCENE, 1982 –1983
- DEFENCE AND UNILATERALISM
- ECONOMIC RECOVERY
- TRADE UNIONS
- POLICY WORK
- CHAPTER XI Home and Dry The background to and course of the 1983 general election campaign
- THE MANIFESTO
- PLANNING THE CAMPAIGN
- UNFINISHED BUSINESS
- THE CAMPAIGN BEGINS
- D-21 TO D-14
- D-14 TO D-7
- D-7 TO D-Day
- CHAPTER XII Back to Normalcy Politics, the economy and foreign affairs from the election to the end of 1983
- THE NEW GOVERNMENT
- THE STUTTGART EUROPEAN COUNCIL
- THE ECONOMY
- DIPLOMACY: VISITS TO THE NETHERLANDS, WEST GERMANY, CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES
- PROBLEMS IN THE TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONSHIP: LEBANON AND GRENADA
- THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL AT ATHENS
- CHAPTER XIII Mr Scargill ’s Insurrection The background to and course of the year-long miners ’ strike of 1984 — 1985
- PRELUDE
- THE STRIKE BEGINS
- A LONG SLOG
- FROM THE JAWS OF VICTORY?
- THE TIDE TURNS
- THE STRIKE BEGINS TO CRUMBLE
- THE END OF THE STRIKE
- CHAPTER XIV Shadows of Gunmen The political and security response to IRA terrorism — 1979–1990
- THE BRIGHTON BOMB
- THE IRISH DILEMMA
- FIRST ATTEMPTS AT DEVOLUTION
- THE HUNGER STRIKES
- DEALINGS WITH THE IRISH REPUBLIC
- BACKGROUND TO THE ANGLO-IRISH AGREEMENT, 1983 –1985
- THE ANGLO-IRISH AGREEMENT —AND REACTIONS: 1985–1987
- IRA ATTACKS AND EXTRA SECURITY MEASURES, 1987 –1990
- CHAPTER XV Keeps Raining all the Time The mid-term political difficulties of 1985 –1986
- A POLITICAL MALAISE
- THE 1985 RESHUFFLE
- THE WESTLAND AFFAIR
- BRITISH LEYLAND
- THE US RAID ON LIBYA
- CHAPTER XVI Men to Do Business With East-West relations during the second term — 1983–1987
- REASSESSING THE SOVIET UNION
- VISIT TO HUNGARY
- MOSCOW: ANDROPOV ’S FUNERAL
- VISIT OF THE GORBACHEVS TO BRITAIN
- SDI
- DISCUSSION OF SDI AT CAMP DAVID
- VISIT TO WASHINGTON: FEBRUARY 1985
- REYKJAVIK
- FURTHER DISCUSSIONS OF NUCLEAR STRATEGY AT CAMP DAVID
- PREPARATION FOR MOSCOW VISIT
- VISIT TO THE SOVIET UNION: MARCH-APRIL 1987
- CHAPTER XVII Putting the World to Rights Diplomacy towards and visits to the Far East, the Middle East and Africa — 1984–1990
- THE FAR EAST
- Hong Kong
- Japan
- East Asia and Australia
- THE MIDDLE EAST
- Egypt and Jordan
- Israel
- AFRICA
- The Problem of South Africa
- The CHOGM at Nassau
- More arguments about sanctions in the EC and the Commonwealth
- Visits to Black Africa
- Rhetoric and Reality in South Africa, 1989 –1990
- Talks with President de Klerk and Mr Mandela
- CHAPTER XVIII Jeux Sans Fronti ères Relations with the European Community — 1984–1987
- TWO VISIONS OF EUROPE
- REFORMING COMMUNITY FINANCES: BRITAIN ’S BUDGET CONTRIBUTION
- THE FONTAINEBLEAU EUROPEAN COUNCIL
- ENLARGEMENT OF THE COMMUNITY
- THE MILAN EUROPEAN COUNCIL
- SINGLE MARKET-MINDEDNESS
- THE LUXEMBURG EUROPEAN COUNCIL
- THE LONDON EUROPEAN COUNCIL
- CHAPTER XIX Hat Trick The preparations for and course of the 1987 general election campaign
- STYLE AND TONE
- RESHUFFLE
- THE STRATEGY GROUP AND POLICY GROUPS
- THE 1986 CONSERVATIVE PARTY CONFERENCE
- ELECTION PREPARATIONS AND THE MANIFESTO
- CLOTHES
- THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN
- D-21 TO D-14
- D-14 TO D-7
- D-7 TO D-DAY
- CHAPTER XX An Improving Disposition Reforms in education, housing and the Health Service; the situation in Scotland
- THE NEW GOVERNMENT
- APPROACHES TO EDUCATION REFORM
- GRANT-MAINTAINED SCHOOLS
- THE NATIONAL CURRICULUM
- THE NEXT WAVE OF EDUCATION REFORM
- IMPLEMENTING THE HOUSING REFORMS
- FURTHER STEPS IN HOUSING POLICY
- REFORMING THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (NHS)
- THATCHERISM REBUFFED — THE CASE OF SCOTLAND
- CHAPTER XXI Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life Family policy, the Arts, Broadcasting, Science and the Environment
- INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES
- THE FAMILY
- THE ARTS
- BROADCASTING
- SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
- CHAPTER XXII A Little Local Difficulty The replacement of the rating system with the community charge
- PROBLEMS WITH THE OLD SYSTEM
- ORIGINS OF THE COMMUNITY CHARGE
- THE ABANDONMENT OF DUAL RUNNING
- PREPARING FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF THE CHARGE
- THE POLITICAL CRISIS MOUNTS
- TO CAP OR NOT TO CAP?
- CHAPTER XXIII To Cut and to Please Tax cuts, tax reform and privatization
- TAX CUTS AND TAX REFORMS
- PRIVATIZATION
- PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES
- PLANS FOR FURTHER PRIVATIZATION
- CHAPTER XXIV Floaters and Fixers Monetary policy, interest rates and the exchange rate
- ECONOMIC AND MONETARY UNION (EMU)
- EARLY DISCUSSION OF THE EXCHANGE RATE MECHANISM (ERM)
- ARGUMENTS ABOUT THE ERM: 1985
- INTEREST RATES AND INFLATION: 1986
- SHADOWING THE DEUTSCHMARK: 1987 –1988
- ECONOMIC PROBLEMS MOUNT
- THE DELORS REPORT ON EMU
- THE AMBUSH BEFORE MADRID
- MORE TENSION WITH NIGEL LAWSON
- NIGEL LAWSON ’S RESIGNATION
- JOHN MAJOR AS CHANCELLOR
- DISCUSSIONS ABOUT ERM AND EMU: 1990
- ENTRY OF STERLING INTO THE ERM
- NO COMPROMISE WITH EMU
- CHAPTER XXV The Babel Express Relations with the European Community — 1987–1990
- FINANCE AND FARMING
- FREE TRADE V. PROTECTION
- DISCUSSION OF EMU
- THE BRUGES SPEECH
- VISIT TO DEIDESHEIM
- EUROPEAN ELECTIONS
- THE MADRID EUROPEAN COUNCIL
- THE FRENCH REVOLUTION BICENTENNIAL
- CABINET RESHUFFLE
- THE FRANCO-GERMAN AXIS — AND ‘POLITICAL UNION’
- EMU AND THE GATT
- THE ROME EUROPEAN COUNCIL
- CHAPTER XXVI The World Turned Right Side Up The fall of communism in eastern Europe, the reunification of Germany and the debate about the future of NATO — 1987–1990
- OVERVIEW
- VISIT TO WASHINGTON IN JULY 1987
- DISCUSSIONS WITH MR GORBACHEV IN DECEMBER 1987
- NATO SUMMIT IN BRUSSELS, MARCH 1988
- PRESIDENT REAGAN ’S VISIT TO LONDON, JUNE 1988
- VISIT TO POLAND, NOVEMBER 1988
- THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION
- NATO SPLIT ON SHORT-RANGE NUCLEAR FORCES (SNF)
- THE FALL OF COMMUNISM IN EASTERN EUROPE IN 1989 AND ITS IMPLICATIONS
- THE GERMAN PROBLEM AND THE BALANCE OF POWER
- GERMAN REUNIFICATION
- AN ANGLO-FRENCH AXIS?
- THE CSCE AND THE ‘ALLIANCE FOR DEMOCRACY’
- THE SOVIET UNION — 1989–90
- VISIT TO THE SOVIET UNION, JUNE 1990
- VISIT TO CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND HUNGARY IN SEPTEMBER 1990
- RESHAPING NATO
- REFLECTIONS
- CHAPTER XXVII No Time to Go Wobbly The response to Iraq ’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990
- EVENTS AT ASPEN
- THE BUILD-UP TO WAR
- CHAPTER XXVIII Men in Lifeboats The background to and course of the 1990 Conservative Party leadership campaign — and resignation
- BACKGROUND TO THE 1990 LEADERSHIP CAMPAIGN
- GEOFFREY HOWE ’S RESIGNATION
- THE LEADERSHIP CAMPAIGN OPENS
- AT THE CSCE SUMMIT IN PARIS
- CONSULTATIONS ON RETURN TO DOWNING STREET
- THE VIEWS OF THE CABINET
- RESIGNATION
- GRAND FINALE
- BOWING OUT
- Chronology
- The Cabinet and other important offices
- List of Abbreviations
- Index
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
- Примечания
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