HESELTINE Environment
PYM Foreign and Commonwealth
BIFFEN Small Businesses
NEAVE Northern Ireland
TAYLOR Scotland
JENKIN Social Services
NOTT Trade
HOWE Treasury
EDWARDS Wales
CARRINGTON House of Lords
HAILSHAM Without portfolio
THORNEYCROFT Chairman
MAUDE Deputy Chairman and CRD Chairman ATKINS Chief Whip (ex officio)
Index
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Aberfan disaster, 142–3
abortion, 150, 152
Abse, Leo, 150
Abyssinia, Italian invasion (1935), 24, 26
Adamson, Campbell, 237
Adenauer, Konrad, 342
Adley, Robert, 269, 271
aerospace industry, 574
Afghanistan: Soviet invasion (1979), 367, 371, 383; US aid, 528
Africa: national identities, 525; economies, 586–9
African National Congress (ANC), 588
Agar, Herbert, 30
aircraft industry, 313
Albania, economy, 593
Alison, Michael, 556
Allon, Yigal, 379
Almond, Mark, 495n
Amery, Julian, 324
Amery, Leo, 55
Amin, Idi, 212
Amis, Kingsley, 78
Andrew, Sir Herbert, 165
Anglo-Soviet Parliamentary Group, 154
Angola, Cuban forces, 349, 361
Anschluss (1938), 26, 29
Anwyl-Harris, Peter, 588n
APEX trade union, 397–8, 401
Arab-Israeli war (1973), 229, 230, 372–3
Argentina, economy, 581, 583
Armstrong, Robert, 37
Armstrong, Sir Thomas, 37
Armstrong, Sir William, 227
art galleries, 179
Ashdown, Lord, 292
Assad, Hafez al-, 376–8
Association of Education Committees, 183
Astaire, Fred, 14
Atkins, Humphrey: MT’s leadership election, 280, 282; relations with Heath, 282–3, 416; MT’s Shadow Cabinet, 282, 285; fall of Labour government, 432–3; election campaign (1979), 447
Atkins, Maggie, 282
Atlantic Charter (1941), 57
Atlas Preservative Company, 65
atomic bomb, 52–4, 175
Attlee, Clement, 44–5, 69
Austen, Jane, 19
Australia: MT’s visit (1976), 387–8; economy, 585–6
Aveling-Barford, 23
Aviation, Ministry of, 117, 206
Ayittey, George B.N., 586n
Bach Choir, Oxford, 37–8
Backbench Finance Committee, 303
Baker, Kenneth, 274
balance of payments, 115, 142, 230
Balcerowicz, Leszek, 591
Baldwin, Stanley, 26, 44
Balfour of Inchrye, Lord, 72
Baltic states, 589
Bank of England, 571
Barber, Anthony: public spending cuts, 192, 203; Chancellor of Exchequer, 199, 200; Budget (1972), 220; trade figures, 230; TUC negotiations, 232
Barnet Council, 131, 172
Barnet Town Hall, 100, 460
Basnett, David, 446
Bauer, Peter, 587
BBC, 86, 382, 434, 443–4
Beatles, 153
Beckenham constituency, 94
Begin, Menachem, 380
Belgium, linguistic disputes, 524
Bell, Tim, 410–11, 412–13, 458
Bellairs, Charles, 248
Belmont Preparatory School, 106
Belstead, Lord, 165
Benn, Tony, 43, 49, 162, 260, 335
Bergman, Ingrid, 14
