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54 Reagan to Mrs Thatcher, loc. cit.

55 Interview, Sir John Coles.

56 Reagan to Mrs Thatcher, 25 October 1983 (Executive Secretariat, NSC, Box 91330).

57 House of Commons, 25 October 1983 [Vol. 47, cols 143 – 6].

58 House of Commons, 27 October 1983 [Vol. 47, col. 422].

59 Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War, 1941 – 1991 (HarperCollins, 1993), p. 264.

60 BBC World Service, 30 October 1983.

61 Renwick, p. 244.

62 New York Times, 11 January 1986.

63 Irish Times, 20 May 2000.

64 Thatcher, p. 445.

65 Renwick, pp. 250 – 51.

66 Thatcher, p. 447.

67 House of Commons, 15 April 1986 [Vol. 95, col. 726].

68 David Owen, Time to Declare (Michael Joseph, 1991), pp. 641 – 2.

69 Thatcher, p. 449.

70 Margaret Thatcher, Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World (HarperCollins, 2002), p. 232.

71 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 449.

72 Reagan speech in Orlando, Florida, 8 March 1983.

73 Baker, p. 262.

74 Reynolds, p. 277.

75 Speech in Washington, DC, 29 September 1983.

76 Thatcher, p. 457.

77 Ibid., p. 452.

78 Peter Walker, Staying Power (Bloomsbury, 1991), p. 193.

79 Cradock, p. 144.

80 Memorandum of conversation at Camp David, 22 December 1984 (NSC, Box 90902).

81 Thatcher, p. 461.

82 Carol Thatcher, p. 222.

83 Thatcher, p. 461.

84 BBC TV interview, 17 December 1984.

85 Speech in Washington, DC, 25 July 1985.

86 James Baker, interviewed on Thatcher: The Downing Street Years.

87 Letters displayed in the Reagan Library.

88 Memorandum of conversation at Camp David, 22 December 1984 (NSC, Box 90902).

89 Thatcher, pp. 463, 466.

90 Robin Butler in Dale, pp. 108 – 9.

91 Memorandum of conversation at Camp David, 22 December 1984 (NSC, Box 90902).

92 Ibid.

93 Reagan to NATO leaders, January 1985 (Box 35, 8590010-8590047).

94 Lt. Gen. James Abrahamson to Mrs Thatcher, 3 January 1985 (Box 35, 8500392-8500484).

95 Macfarlane, p. 284.

96 Speech to the US Congress, Washington, DC, 20 February 1985.

97 Mrs Thatcher to Reagan, 22 February 1985 (Box 35, 8590152-8590923).

98 Macfarlane, pp. 305 – 7.

99 Smith, p.177.

100 Macfarlane, p. 306.

101 Thatcher, pp. 467, 471.

102 John Poindexter memo to Reagan, 15 November 1986 (NSC, Box 90902).

103 Ibid.

104 George Shultz memo to Reagan, November 1986 (loc. cit.).

105 Interview for ABC, 21 January 1987.

106 Daily Express, 22 April 1987.

107 Face the Nation, CBS, I July 1987.

108 Thatcher, p. 482.

109 Cockerell, p. 318.

110 RodneyTyler, Campaign!The Selling of the Prime Minister (Grafton Books, 1987).

17. Iron Lady II: Europe and the World

1 Speech to Franco-British Council, Avignon, 30 November 1984.

2 Thatcher, p. 536.

3 Young, p. 383.

4 Harold Evans, Good Times, Bad Times (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983), p. 284.

5 Ingham, p. 265.

6 Thatcher, p. 543.

7 Sir Geoffrey Howe, interviewed on The Last Europeans, Channel 4, 1995.

8 Margaret Thatcher, interviewed on The Poisoned Chalice, BBC 1996.

9 David Williamson, interviewed on The Last Europeans.

10 Bernard Ingham, interviewed on The Poisoned Chalice.

11 Jacques Delors, interviewed on The Poisoned Chalice.

12 House of Commons, 30 April 1974 [Vol. 872, col. 967].

13 Speech at Lille, 20 January 1986.

14 Interview, Sir John Coles.

15 Sowetan, 2 October 1989.

16 Press conference in Oslo, 12 September 1986.

17 Thatcher, p. 515.

18 BBC, 27 June 1986.

19 Interview on Channel 10, Sydney, 4 August 1988.

20 Anthony Sampson, Nelson Mandela (HarperCollins, 1999), pp. 321, 356.

21 Reagan to Mrs Thatcher, 23 June 1986 (Box 35, 8690401-8690687).

22 Robin Renwick, Unconventional Diplomacy in Southern Africa (Macmillan, 1997), p. 152.

23 House of Commons, 13 February 1990 [Vol. 167, col. 140].

24 Sampson, p. 409.

25 Thatcher, p. 533; Sampson, p. 418.

26 Richard Allen memo to Reagan (Box 35, 8106458).

27 Reagan to Mrs Thatcher, November 1981 (loc. cit.).

28 Reagan to Mrs Thatcher, 1 December 1981 (loc. cit.).

29 Mrs Thatcher to Reagan, 22 March 1983 (Box 35, 8301952-8300964).

30 Mrs Thatcher to Reagan, 5 November 1983 (Box 35, 8391259-8391521).

31 Thatcher, p. 334.

32 Note of meeting between Mrs Thatcher and Caspar Weinberger, 29 February 1984 (Executive