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90 Sep 28 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Germany: Hurd PS minute to Charles Powell ("Visit to the UK by President von Weizsacker: 14 November 1990") [Coventry cathedral commemoration arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 30 Su	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Bush, General Scowcroft, Charles Powell; James Baker in part) ["The Gulf Crisis: the Military Option"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	G7: Policy Planning Staff brief ("A Theme for the London Summit") ["hot" political issues include Gulf crisis aftermath, NATO, Soviet Union and Yugoslavia] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: John Major minute to MT ("Standard Spending Assessments for 1991-92") [endorses Patten's proposals for changes in the assessments] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("Local Authority Expenditure: Distribution of Total Standard Spending (TSS) and Standard Spending Assessment (SSA)") [options for distribution] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("The Non-Domestic Rate Poundage for 1991-92") [indexation of the multiplier] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Peter Lilley minute to Norman Lamont ("1990 Public Expenditure Survey: Post Office and ECGD") [external finance limit] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Andrew Turnbull minute to PS (BBC Opinion programme) [how to maintain impartiality and imbalance] [declassified Dec 2017]
90 Oct 2 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: David Waddington minute to Chris Patten ("Local Authority Current: 1991-92 Total Standard Spending Distribution and Standard Spending Assessments") [composition of SSAs] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 2 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Charge Capping 1991/92") [impact on school budgets] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 2 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Scotland: Peter Morrison minute for MT ("Lord Sanderson and Scotland") [Sanderson beginning to settle into the job as chairman] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 2 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Norman Lamont minute to David Hunt ("1990 Public Expenditure Survey: Wales") [NHS cross border flows] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 2 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey (PES)") [Lamont will do very well to get near his ambitious target] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 3 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	G7: Charles Powell minute to Nigel Wicks ("London Economic Summit") [Mulroney's confusion over Summit dates] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 3 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Labour Party conference) [IRA murder gang, German unification] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 3 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Community Charge: Exemption for 18 and 19 Year Old School-Leavers") [address issue with short bill] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 3 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Major) [inflation, interest rates and joining ERM; Major proposed MT announce entry in her conference speech on 12 Oct] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 3 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor") [options to join and reduce interest rates next weekend] declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 3 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Norman Lamont minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey") [establishment of Star Chamber] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 3 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Major-Lamont-Griffiths-Butler) [bids had been even higher than last year] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 4 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (East-West/Defence, Labour Party) [UK seeking new UN resolution to sanction military action against Iraq if hostages harmed] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 4 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	NHS: Clarke PS minute to Dominic Morris (new doctors' contract) [article in Doctor] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 4 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute for MT ("Exchange Rate Mechanism") [possible announcement in MT's Conference Speech: options/permutations] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 4 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Major; Middleton, Burns, Wicks, George) [ERM entry; decision to announce interest rate cut at same time and to join tomorrow, 5 Oct; present rate of DM2.93 "very close to what we would like the central rate to be"] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 4 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Chancellor's PS minute to Middleton ("Contact List for Friday, 5 October") [who to notify about UK ERM entry, and when] declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 4 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Governor of the Bank of England letter for MT (UK entry into ERM) [will be seen as "a strong policy signal ... good chance of an outstanding result and success for the Government"] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 4 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Barry Potter minute to MT ("1990 Public Expenditure Survey") [establishment of Star Chamber] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 5 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Norman Lamont (TSS for 1991-92) [proposals for service split] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 5 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf, Labour Party, Politics) [Israel-Palestine peace chances] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 5 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Chancellor and Prime Minister's Statements") [revised draft of Chancellor's 4pm statement on UK entry to ERM and 1 percent reduction in interest rates; suggested form of words for MT] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 5 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 (ERM entry) [Q&A briefing to accompany Chancellor's statement] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 5 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: MT minute to Norman Lamont ("1990 Public Expenditure Survey") [establishment of Star Chamber] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 5 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Broadcasting: Impartiality") [extending impartiality provisions to BBC] [declassified Dec 2017]
90 Oct 5 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Bernard Ingham minute to Charles Powell ("Broadcasting - Impartiality") ["We are in danger of endless litigation"] [declassified Dec 2017]
90 Oct 5 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 2441 to FCO (2350Z) ("US/Soviet Relations") ["Gorbachev still the Americans' preferred partner. But his obvious and serious problems are beginning to cloud the picture"] [released Dec 2017]
90 Oct 6 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservatism: Ingham minute to MT ("Today's Press") [ERM entry "clearly a coup and on the whole it has gone down very well indeed"] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 6 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 minute for MT ("Meeting of the European Monetary Committee") [text of communique agreeing sterling should enter ERM at central rate of DM2.95 with 6 percent margins; "a significant advance in economic and monetary integration"] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 7 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservatism: Ingham briefing for MT ("The Sunday Press") ["as good as can be expected" on ERM] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 7 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: FCO telegram to Major ("UK Entry to the ERM") [Hurd conversation with Delors on latter's problems with the announcement; CDP: "It's none of his business"] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 8 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: John Major minute to Chris Patten ("Local Authority Financial Assets") [proposal to legislate to require authorities to use reserved receipts to repay debt] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 8 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("UK Entry to the ERM: German Reactions") [general welcome; some expect it to strengthen German resistance to rapid EMU] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 8 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKE Luxembourg telegram to FCO ("ECOFIN Council: 8 October: EMU") [general congratulations on UK entry to ERM, save from Carli] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 8 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 letter to Lord President's PS ("Debate on Sterling's Entry into the ERM") [asks advice on letter from Neil Kinnock demanding debate] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 8 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Norman Lamont minute to Peter Lilley ("1990 Public Expenditure Survey: ECGD; IFR 1990; Post Office") [need to ensure Post Office accept spending discipline] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 9 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Abu Dhabi telegram to FCO ("Iraqi reprisals") [reliable source says 20 Kuwaiti men detained at Saudi border and shot in reprisal for bombing of Kuwait International Hotel] [unclassified; released* Jul 2017]*
90 Oct 9 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Amman telegram to FCO ("Jordan: Sanctions") [frank exchange with Crown Prince Hassan on sanction breaches and Jordanian policy] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 9 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO ("Effects of Sanctions - Industrial Decline") ["serious problems expected ... supply of raw materials, spare parts and foreign expertise"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 9 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: MT letter to President Khan of Pakistan (Pakistan's stance) ["Pakistan's firm stance and its commitment of troops ... have been of great value"; economic assistance] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 9 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: General Scowcroft letter to Charles Powell (Mitterrand) [MT & Bush in New York "shared acute concern about the lack of unequivocal French support"; message conveyed to Mitterrand] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 9 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Non-Domestic Rate Poundage 1991-92") [indexation of the poundage] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 9 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Turnbull minute for MT ("Opposition Request for Debate on ERM") [Lord President, Chancellor and Chief Whip all think government should grant it] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 9 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Privy Council Office letter to No.10 ("Debate on Sterling's Entry into the ERM") [Lord President and Chief Whip urge she grant it; Chancellor thinks to refuse would cloud favourable publicity won by entry] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 9 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Arrangements for Star Chamber") [timetable, members] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 10 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UK Ambassador US letter to Charles Powell ("The Gulf: contacts with the White House") [asks how UKE Washington can best help MT keep "fully abreast of White House thinking"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 10 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Gulf: ROE") [are you content with 'dormant' Rules of Engagement "for use if a limited conflict develops in the Gulf"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 10 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO record of conversation (Policy Planning Staff, Shevardnadze adviser Sergey Tarasenko) ["particularly outspoken on the Gulf ... Saddam Hussein must not come out of the crisis a hero, like Nasser"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 10 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO letter to No.10 ("Jordan and the Gulf Crisis") [memo from King Hussein' acknowledgment suggested] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 10 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Wakeham minute for MT ("Visit to the Gulf: 29 September - 2 October") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 10 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Non-Domestic Rate Poundage") [case for full indexation] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 10 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Turnbull minute for MT (further Kinnock letter demanding MT open debate on ERM entry) ["letting off steam rather than a serious appeal"] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 10 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: MT lette to Neil Kinnock (debate on ERM entry) [Chancellor will open for the government since he made the announcement] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 10 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Barry Potter minute to Wakeham PS (Star Chamber) [membership] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 11 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: MOD minute to Lord President's Office ("MPs' Visits to the Gulf") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 11 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Turnbull minute for MT (Heath's meeting with Saddam Hussein) [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 11 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Italy: Powell letter to FCO ("Signor Andreotti's talks with the Prime Minister") [refuses permission for Italian press officer to attend Chequers talks] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 11 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Policy Unit (RPI) [suggests putting this point to MT later] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 11 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Brooke PS minute to Barry Potter (Star Chamber) [prepared to be a member] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2480 to FCO (2255Z) ("Visit of the Secretary of State for Defence, 15 October: Iraq/Kuwait") ["Despite their frustrations the Americans seem bound to try to make sanctions work at least for the next several weeks, until their build up is complete"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York fax to FCO (0000Z) ("Revised draft") [draft of SCR672, 2000 11 Oct] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York fax to FCO (2015Z) ("Revised draft") [draft of SCR672, 1615 12 Oct, plus draft statement] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Cairo telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's meeting with President Mubarak") [anecdotal account of invasion; King Hussein "cat's paw" to Saddam; in event of military action "the Iraqis will run away"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of conversations (MT, President Bush; No.10, UKMIS New York; Charles Powell-Scowcroft) ["Security Council resolution: killings in Jerusalem"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT (Heath) [Iraqis not saying Heath visit at weekend not convenient, asking him "to postpone it for a while"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting of Ministers: the Gulf") [action at UN, sanctions, hostages/Heath, Embassies in Kuwait, Diplomacy, US policy, military, oil] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Curwen minute for Powell ("Reactions to Gulf Postings") [letter from the Commanding Officer of the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with President De Klerk") [negotiations with ANC hindered by violence with Inkhatha, inability of ANC to make up its mind and "Mandela's constant peregrinations around the world"] [declassified Dcr 2018]
90 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: David Hunt minute to Norman Lamont ("New Burdens on Local Government") [implications of government policy for local authority spending] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC/Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("European Council, 27/28 Oct: Italian presidency plans") [Jay official talks in Rome - IGCs a focus, Italians had hoped to secure a 'mandate' for both, now saying unlikely] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey") [premature to set up Star Chamber at this stage] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 13 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1623 to FCO (0700Z) ("Occupied Territories: Security Council debate") [adoption of SCR672 - MT: "A VERY good night's work"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 13 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Amman telegram to FCO ("Gulf Crisis: audience with King Hussein") [King summoned UK and US Ambassdors, affirmed commitment to sanctions; Tariq Aziz to visit later today] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 14 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Amman telegram to FCO ("Visit of Tariq Aziz to Amman: 13 October") [briefing from King Hussein, no sign of shift in Iraqi position] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 14 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell letter to Ministry of Defence ("Gulf: ROE") [MT satisfied] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 14 Su	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-De Klerk at Chequers) [De Klerk worried Mandela losing grip on the ANC; annex records MT would love to visit South Africa, but only when there had been "substantial progress in negotiations"] [declassified Dcr 2018]
90 Oct 14 Su	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Gulf, etc: MT note ("Notes for reply to President Bush phone call Oct 1990") [no option to play it long] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 14 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservatism: Ingham briefing for MT ("The Sunday Newspapers") [party conference "judged to have been low key, defensive, nervy, uninspired and divided over Europe"] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2487 to FCO (1600Z) ("conveying messages to Saddam Hussein") ["US agreement with our diagnosis. Effect of sanctions so far limited. Several channels to Saddam Hussein. Primakov achieved little"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1635 to FCO (1425Z) ("Occupied Territories") [US Ambassador trying to persuade Israel to be more cooperative to Aime Mission] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait: discussion with Saudi Defence Minister") ["enlightening discussion of how he sees next steps"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, US Defense Secretary Cheney, Tom King) [military situation in the Gulf] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: MT letter to King Hussein (his memorandum on the crisis) [important "to stay in close touch on this issue", "I think that we both have a clear understanding of each other's views"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO letter to No.10 ("Iraq/Kuwait: positive information campaign") [seventh weekly sitrep; extensive briefing notes] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Wakeham minute for MT (Iraq/Kuwait: Iraqi threat to Saudi Arabian oil installations) [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social services: Tony Newton minute to MT ("White Paper on new proposals for child maintenance") [covering minute for draft] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf, Politics, Economy/Pay) [Hurd and Heath row over whose idea it was Heath should go to Iraq] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Barry Potter (Exemption for 18 and 19 Year Old School Leavers) ["student gap" problem] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Chancellor's Statement on ERM") [text for delivery] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Norman Lamont minute to MT ("1990 Public Expenditure Survey: Defence") [practicable and politically desirable to make further reductions] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Update on PES Negotiations") [progress with Home Office, education, employment] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2497 to FCO (0046Z) ("Occupied Territories") [message for Hurd - Baker message to Levy] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1645 to FCO (0122Z) ("Occupied Territories") [inconclusive meeting between Secretary-General and Israel Ambassador to UN] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Amman telegram to FCO ("Jordan: UN Sanctions") ["Crown Prince replies helpfully, if somewhat testily, to your message about sanctions enforcement"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UK Consulate Jerusalem telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's visit to Israel: Plenary Session: Gulf crisis") [Israeli concern that Arab support for Saddam will grow in any "long haul scenario"; containing Saddam if he survives; Jordan worries] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Cradock minute for MT ("The Gulf: Visit to Washington") [topics for his visit; "The signs are still of lack of clarity and determination"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("The Gulf") [Cradock visit to Washington - limitation on topics he can safely raise because he has not been briefed on highest level American thinking] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Gulf Crisis: Embargo Surveillance Unit") [essential but not glamorous work, could she see them as a "nice gesture"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Gulf Business Note") ["rather elaborate" note from Robin Butler, lising papers on crisis to prepare and put to cabinet committee OD(G); MT unhappy] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO letter to No.10 ("Gulf: ROE") [Foreign Secretary satisfied] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Butler minute for Powell ("Gulf Business Note") [summarises work in preparation and agenda for OD(G) for following month; MT critical, worried over leaks] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Local Authority Finance 1991/92") [publication of proposals for grant settlement] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social services: Tony Newton minute to MT ("Social Security benefits: 1991/92 uprating") [advance notice of main features of forthcoming statement] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservatism: MT letter to Sir Ronald Millar (Conservative Party Conference 1990, Eastbourne) [thank you letters to speechwriters; "I Do, Ron Ron"] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf, Gorbachev, Economy) [Hurd gets frosty reception in Israel] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Charge Capping: Lambeth") [doing nothing is not an option] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Non-Domestic Rating") [case for indexation] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("Afghanistan: Mujahedin Attacks on Kabul") [report] [released Jul 2018]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS)	MT: MT to Ronnie Millar (conference speech thanks) [“speech-writing process seemed to be easier than in some previous years”]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2510 to FCO (2109Z) ("UNSG's mission to Jerusalem") [US policy towards Israel and PLO] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York fax to FCO (2105Z) (French draft SCR on Iraq/Kuwait) [early draft of SCR674] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1655 to FCO (0415Z) ("Next steps on Iraq/Kuwait") [message for Secretary of State in Jerusalem - continuing UK-US differences over scope of next steps SCR] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1656 to FCO (0430Z) ("Next steps on Iraq/Kuwait: comment") ['infuriating' that USMIS at UN was undercut by "yet another premature Baker press statement"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UK Consulate Jerusalem telegram to FCO ("Message from Baker to Secretary of State") [wants a "clean humanitatian resolution" without reparations to address plight of foreign nationals; MT annotates strong disagreement] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Primakov's Visit to Rome, 16 October") ["Soviets reportedly link Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait to a UN initiative on the Occupied Territories"; Andreotti preference for a negotiated settlement] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for Cradock ("The Gulf: Visit to Washington") [topics he can safely raise, excluding military options, timing and strategy] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Cradock minute for Charles Powell ("The Gulf: Visit to Washington") ["this agenda would raise problems for me" - need to be able to "cover the issue in broad terms" to encourage US to think through options more clearly] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Telephone conversation with President Bush") [Scowcroft says President will want to call tomorrow or Friday evening; draft message for MT to send Bush first] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for Robin Butler ("Gulf Business Note") [MT reaction - distinguish issues which can go to OD(G) and some that need "to be handled on an even more restricted basis"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting of Ministers: the Gulf") [diplomatic (Hurd, Primakov, Heath, Bush, UN, Kuwait Embassies), military, future work] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT (King Hussein comment) [Saddam seized whole of Kuwait as bargaining chip for disputed territory] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO briefing for MT ("The Prime Minister's Telephone Conversation with President Bush") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO telegram to UKE Moscow ("Primakov's Tour: Meeting with the Secretary of State") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf/Middle East, Soviet Union, South Africa) [MT and Bush warn Hussein of war crimes charges] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("President Cossiga") ["A high and controversial profile in recent months after five quiet years"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Potter minute to Professor Griffiths ("Charge Capping: Lambeth") [legislation needed to plug the gap in government's capping powers] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Community Charge Exemption for 18 and 19 Year Old School Leavers") ["student gap" problem] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("EMU: Visit by Financial Secretary") [Poehl said British hard ecu proposals too late to influence debate, too soon to broker agreement in IGC] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("EMU: Visit by Financial Secretary to Bonn, 15 October") [Maude addresses German equivalent of CBI] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2520 to FCO (2220Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Primakov's Tour") ["Administration will take a tough line on the compromise solution which they expect Primakov to bring to Washington"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1664 to FCO (0030Z) ("Jerusalem: Iraq/Kuwait: Security Council resolution") [text agreed in five, aim to have resolution passed end of week, "but final US go-ahead still awaited"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1665 to FCO (0035Z) ("Next steps on Iraq/Kuwait: Military Staff Committee") [discussion in five on Soviet proposal for Military Staff Committee meeting, US without instructions, other four in favour] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1667 to FCO (1315Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait") ["US modus operandi in New York is certainly not designed to get the best results"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York fax to FCO (2010Z) ("US/UK New York text of 16/10") [draft of SCR674] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Tel Aviv telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's call on Israeli Defence Minister") ["cordial and detailed exchange" - Occupied Territories; UNSG's mission; Jordan; Iraqi military capabilities] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Athens telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's meeting with Israeli Prime Minister") ["Good atmosphere but predictable differences"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO record of conversation (Hurd-Baker) ["Gulf Crisis: next steps at the UN"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Cradock minute for Charles Powell ("The Gulf: Visit to Washington") [as agreed, draft message for Powell to send Scowcroft] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of phone conversation (MT, President Bush) [Bush "agreed that the key calculation was whether we had the luxury of giving sanctions time to work"; disagreement over reprovisioning Embassies in Kuwait and necessity of a further 'provocation' to justify use of force] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT (overnight telegrams) ["The Foreign Secretary is in a fair amount of trouble"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell letter to FCO & Cabinet Office ("The Gulf") [top secret records of meetings, messages & calls with US Administration] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Baker message for Hurd (Security Council: next steps) [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: MOD minute for Powell ("Pay and Allowances in the Gulf") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO minute for Powell ("Gulf Crisis: Burden Sharing") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social services: No.10 minute to MT ("White Paper on new proposals for child maintenance") [analysis & advice on minute from Tony Newton & related correspondence] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	European Council: MT letter to Lawson (his decision to leave the Commons) ["The ERM has gone well"] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf/Middle East, Economy/EC) [Hurd's trip to Israel seen as a disaster] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit by the Italian Prime Minister") [agenda for Rome European Council] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("Charge Capping: Lambeth") [legislation needed to plug the gap] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Non Domestic Rating") [indexation of the poundage] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: John Major minute to MT ("Non Domestic Rating") [protection for SMEs] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Community Charge Capping: Impact on School Budgets") [next year's capping exercise to be more extensive] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC/Italy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("French views on the European Council") [Jay conversation with Elizabeth Guigou] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to No 10 ("Local Authority Finance: 1991/92") [criteria for charge capping] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome telegram 877 to FCO (1610Z) ("Informal European Council: Italian views on the agenda") [seeing MPs "Andreotti unsurpringly placed preparations for the two IGCs, at the top of the European Council agenda"] [declassified Spt 2019]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [public expenditure negotiations; social security budget; economic forecast; the Gulf; family policies on taxation and child benefit] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Chancellor Kohl on EMU") [Kohl on French TV suggests 1 January 1994 as the starting date for stage 2] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Sir Michael Butler fax to Powell ('EMU') [Butler discussion with Padoa Schioppa] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Norman Lamont minute to Peter Lilley ("1990 PES: Post Office, ECGD") [efficiency savings, tariff increases] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Bush & Scowcroft memoir	Gulf War: MT letter to George Bush ("we should go sooner rather than later") [excerpt]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2457 to FCO (2357Z) ("Primakov's Visit") ["Primakov got a strongly negative response from the President ... to suggestions for a face-saving way out for Saddam Hussein"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2546 to FCO (2323Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: the mood in Washington") ["Administration remains uncompromising over the need for full implementation of the UN resolutions. But no suggestion this requires an early decision on the military option in the absence of a provocation"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2548 to FCO (2358Z) ("Arab/Israel") [Administration "concentrating in the first instance on relations between Israel and the Arab states"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington letter to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait: New York Times") [King Hussein claiming MT told him US troops were "half way to Saudi Arabia" before they were formally requested] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1681 to FCO (0200Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait Security Council resolution") ["No progress. Americans still do not have clearance. Council will revert to occupied territories on 19 October"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1683 to FCO (1945Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Security Council resolution") ["Americans agree to SCR as drafted by the Five. Text submitted to other Council members"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Foreign Secretary minute for MT ("Egypt, Israel and Greece") [account of visit; difficulties in Israel ("I landed in the mud and am sorry if this caused you difficulty"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of phone conversation (General Scowcroft-Charles Powell) [reprovisioning/evacuation of US Embassy in Kuwait; US confusion as to events at the UN] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Kuwaiti Crown Prince & Prime Minister letter to MT (Kuwaiti People's Conference) ["Your commitment to ending tyranny and torture is truly noble"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell letter to General Scowcroft (Cradock visit to Washington) ["He will not want to get sensitive areas of military strategy and planning"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO letter to No.10 ("The Gulf Crisis: visit by Mr Primakov") [background] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 minute for MT ("Interview with Al-Hayat Newspaper") [background, draft and Powell rewrite] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Ingham minute for MT ("European Council - Rome") [key points briefing for Sunday Lobby] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Italian Prime Minister") ["I think your approach should be that frankly we doubt the utility of the meeting. But since it is being held, it should focus on the real issues of importance"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: John MacGregor minute to Norman Lamont ("Future Service Share Methodology") [teachers' pay settlement] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social services: No.10 minute to MT ("Child benefit and PES") ["Understandably, Mr. Newton sees attractions in his concept of a "family premium". But you may feel that you and colleagues should consider the new policy departure more thoroughly"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social services: No.10 letter to Newton PS ("White Paper on new proposals for child maintenance") [MT's "detailed points on the proposals"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservatism: Conservative Chairman briefing ("Eastbourne by-election - line to take") ["The parrot has twitched!"] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Politics, Gulf, Industry) [SPD win Eastbourne] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: Powell briefing for MT ("State Visit by President Cossiga") [outline agenda, with FCO briefing] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Geoffrey Howe minute to Chris Patten ("Charge Capping: Lambeth") [preparation for a short separate bill] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Charge Capping: Lambeth") [legislation to ensure full benefit of reduction is passed on] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing ("Community Charge 1991-92") [RSG settlement, use of capping powers] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Non-Domestic Rates") [indexation of the poundage] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: John Major minute to MT ("Local Authority Finance 1991-92") [likely to lead to criticism that authorities will escape capping by cutting education services] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Local Authority Finance 1991/92") [capping proposals will be controversial] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: David Hunt minute to MT ("Local Authority Finance 1991/92: Wales") [agreement with local authority associations] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral Meeting with the Chancellor") [central forecast: exchange rate; wage settlements; oil prices; inflation forecast] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Monetary Policy: Major PS minute to Barry Potter ("The October Forecast") [expected growth of 0.5 percent in 1991; high figure for 1991 community charge] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("EMU") [Kohl's suggested date for stage 2 "will have pleased the European lobby and displeased the financial community"] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Norman Lamont minute to MT ("1990 Public Expenditure Survey") [essential to show we have been prepared to grasp the nettle on defence] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Norman Lamont minute to MT ("Defence Expenditure") [has reduced massively initial demands for savings but cannot justify going further] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("1990 Public Expenditure: Defence") [p0ssible solution to the gap between Lamont and King's positions] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Child Benefit and PES") [family premium proposals] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 20 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2550 to FCO (0050Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: new regional security arrangements") [State Department thinking relayed by Dennis Ross; premature to go into detail] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 20 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1687 to FCO (0430Z) ("Secretary-General's mission to Israel") [SG briefs Council on decision not to send his mission; growing pressure for a new resolution] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 20 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1690 to FCO (0455Z) ("Next steps on Iraq/Kuwait: Military Staff Committee") [US agree MSC meeting, but MT opposes because "no agenda or purpose"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 20 Sa	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO ("Eastern Province: contingency planning") [advice to UK citizens] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 20 Sa	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO ("Proposed meeting with King Fahd: present Saudi thinking") [to discuss timing - "risk of diminishing appetite for a fight, and concern that time turning against Alliance"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 20 Sa	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Foreign Minister Primakov and others) [Primakov describes visit to Saddam; urges face-saving "flexible linkage" of withdrawal from Kuwait to Arab/Israeli problem; MT emphatically rejects approach - Saddam "a dictator pure and simple", "We must NOT offer him blandishments"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 20 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC/Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Andreotti) [Italian politics; Cossiga state visit; European Council; the Gulf; GATT; CSCE; aid to USSR; South Africa; seat of the institutions; IGCs; EC/US; Gorbachev; Libya] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 21 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO ("Mr Heath's Press Conference") [Heath states "assurance from Saddam that a number of detainees would be released"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 21 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting of Ministers: the Gulf") [diplomatic (Heath Mission, situation at UN, Primakov, Kuwait Embassies, Jordan etc), military, oil] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 21 Su	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	EC/Italy: Powell minute to MT's diary secretary ("European Council, Rome") [MT wants a briefing meeting ideally on Friday] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 letter to Hurd PS ("Prime Minister's interview with Al-Hayat newspaper") [draft answers for written interview] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation ("The Gulf: French views") [Charles Powell, Jacques Attali] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (Charles Powell, Brent Scowcroft) ["Americans... very unhappy about the way things were going at the [UN]"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (Charles Powell, Horst Teltschik) [clarification that Heath visited Baghdad in private capacity; FRG government under heavy pressure to allow Willy Brandt to undertake similar mission] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 briefing for MT ("The Gulf") [meeting with Hurd & Tom King: strategic objectives; sensitive issues] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Prime Minister of Japan letter to MT ("The Gulf") [report of his visit to Middle East] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 216 to Cabinet Office (2242Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: technical and scientific aspects") ["could possibly produce a crude nuclear device by the end of this year"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 215 to Cabinet Office (2232Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: politics and economics") ["Saddam confident of his internal position. CIA concerned about the continued reliability of some of the Arabs [coalition allies]... if [Saddam] thinks war imminent, he will take preemptive action"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1695 to FCO (1935Z) ("Secretary-General's mission to Israel") ["Exchanges with the Americans, Yemenis and PLO... in light of events in the Occupied Territories over the weekend"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO ("Situation in Kuwait") ["a dying city... non-Iraqi population evacuating"; Iraqi military morale reported to be low] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Child benefit") ["Either a further freeze or up-rating child benefit would... be clear and defensible on grounds of principle. But Tony Newton's proposal would not"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservatism: Ingham minute to MT ("Presentation post-Bournemouth/Eastbourne") [government and party "need to be made to snap out of it .... It's later than they think"] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf/Middle East, Politics, Community Charge) [American mood on Iraq] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Italy: No.10 minute for Powell (arrangements for President Cossiga's address to Parliament) [order of play] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Cossiga) ["discussion was largely of a philosophical nature about the problems of modern society, including criminality, drugs and terrorism"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Peter Lilley minute to Chris Patten (Community Charge Capping 1991/92) [a firm line must be taken] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Community Charge 1991/92") [distribution of TSS] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to David Hunt (consultation papers) [job-related accommodation] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Ken Clarke briefing to MT ("Local Authority Finance 1991/92") [must not set local government impossible targets] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC/Gulf: FCO minute to Powell ("Bilateral with Chancellor Kohl: Special European Council, Rome, 27/28 Oct 1990") [German financial support for British deployment to Gulf; aid to Jordan] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: Delors letter to Hurd ("Commission opinion of 21 Oct 1990 on the proposal for ... political union") [mentioned in Boris Johnson Telegraph article] [declassified Spt 2019]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [ERM entry; interest rate cut; public spending round] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Treasury letter to Privy Council Office ("Scrutiny Debate on Economic and Monetary Union") [Chancellor wishes one to take place before Dec 1990 IGC] declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Treasury letter to Chief Whip's PS ("Motion for ERM Debate 23 October") [motion agreed with No.10 for tomorrow's debate] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Barry Potter minute to Lilley PS ("1990 PES: Post Office, ECGD") [first priority is to seek efficiency savings] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Lamont PS minute to Barry Potter ("Public Expenditure Survey: Progress Report") [top priority must be to defeat inflation and maintain confidence in economic policies] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Lamont PS ("1990 Public Expenditure: Defence") [Lamont and King should resume discussions] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 2561 to FCO (2322Z) ("US/Soviet Relations: Baker's Speech to the American Committee on US/Soviet Relations") [summary/analysis] [released Dec 2017]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd, Tom King) [major issues in advance of military operations against Iraq: "downfall [of Hussein]... would be a desirable side-effect of our actions"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO minute to No.10 ("Iraqi missile deployment") [SCUD-type missile identified; likely to be more; notifying Israel] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO minute to No.10 ("Iraq/Kuwait") [Waldegrave meeting with Charles Jones & Peter Gummer of Shandwick PR firm: note of their advice on state of US public opinion] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1710 to FCO (0325Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Next Steps Resolution") ["ways of dealing in parallel with the Gulf crisis and the situation in the Occupied Territories"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1704 to FCO (0150Z) ("Next steps on Iraq/Kuwait: Military Staff Committee") ["high-level meeting of MSC members"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social services: No.10 minute to MT ("draft Social Security Uprating statement") [suggested amendments] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Social services: No.10 minute (internal) to Turnbull (policy changes agreed during course of annual Public Expenditure Surveys) ["two reasons why such agreements should be brought to the attention of other Ministers"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social services: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lamont, Tony Newton, Tim Renton) ["Social Security uprating 1991-92"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social services: Howe letter to Tony Newton ("DSS legislation 1990-91: child maintenance") ["I am unhappy about embarking on this bill on the basis you propose"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf, Politics, Child Benefit) [Hussein in Kuwait] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (Delors press conference) [pre-Rome European Council review; Delors suggests December Council should set date for EMU Stage 2, with only two hour talk on political union] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: John Major minute to MT ("Charge Capping 1991-92") [impact on school provisions] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: David Waddington minute to Chris Patten (Charge Capping) [police and fire authorities] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO ("Foreign Affairs Council: 22 Oct 1990") [Carli report on EMU to be forwarded to European Council, Italian presidency advising that preparatory work was complete] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Turkey: UKE Ankara telegram 471 to FCO (1400Z) ("Turksat") [BAe hopeful again following suspension of Turkish negotiations with Aerospatiale] [declassified Dec 2017]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Bush Library)	Gulf War: George Bush letter to Israeli PM (Yitzhak Shamir) [declassified 1999]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1731 to FCO (1445Z) ("Secretary-General's mission to Israel") ["Negative Israeli reaction to latest US approach over Secretary General's mission. Americans instructed to seek amendments to non-aligned draft resolution, to enable them to vote in favour"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1730 to FCO (0145Z) ("Secretary-General's mission to Israel") ["Americans adopt my idea of a last attempt to get the Secretary-General's representative into Israel... but unless... [they] can pull off a coup with Shamir, there seems no way in which they can avoid a [UN resolution] vote on 24 October"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2589 to FCO (2355Z) ("The Gulf: authority for the military option") ["US Administration considered that Article 51 gave sufficient authority... [but] it would be much easier to obtain Congressional acquiescence ... [if] authority given by the international community"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait") ["Kohl... most concerned that Saddam Hussein could succeed in his obvious tactic of trying to divide the West by selective release of hostages"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO ("Foreign nationals in Iraq") ["French nationals... allowed to leave Iraq... a clear example of attempted wedge-driving"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO ("Riot at site") [protest by Western hostages] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Parkinson minute to MT (Prime Minister's visit to Embargo Surveillance Centre) [welcomes MT visit and provides brief outline of the Centre's functions] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 letter to MT (letter from the Prime Minister of Kuwait) [seeks advice as to whether reply needed] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Statement on the Middle East") [draft of Hurd's address to the House: Iraq/Kuwait; Israel] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Hurd minute to Tom King ("Rolls Royce: engines for an Argentine frigate") [sale of spare parts to facilitate Argentine contribution to multinational force in the Gulf] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: President of the Commission of the EC letter to MT (financial assistance for countries most immediately affected by the Gulf crisis) [Turkey, Egypt, Jordan; UK concerns about EC decisions involving major expenditure] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKrep Brussels telegram to FCO ("European Council: Rome: 27/28 October 1990: EC issues") [Soviet Union/Eastern Europe; GATT/agriculture; EMU; political union] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign policy/EC: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [European Council in Rome; Ambassador to South Africa; "You might also needle Delors about his reported comments on a federal Europe"] [declassified Jul 2019]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social services: Newton PS letter to No.10 (Social Security uprating) [final draft of Tony Newton statement to Parliament] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf, Ted Heath, Economy, EC) [hostages in Iraq] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: David Hunt minute to MT ("Non Domestic Rate Poundages") [transitional arrangements for SMEs] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: Italian PM Andreotti letter to MT (Rome European Council agenda) [no mention of GATT Uruguay round] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UK Permanent Representative Brussels minute to FCO ("European Council: draft conclusions") [Kerr commentary on text he had acquired] [declassified Spt 2019]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Council: FCO briefing for Foreign Secretary ("Special European Council, Rome: SoS's bilateral with the PM, 25 October") [agenda] [declassified Spt 2019]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Council: FCO briefing for MT ("Special European Council, Rome: Brief No.1 Political Union") [objectives, points to make and background] [declassified Spt 2019]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 minute for MT ('EMU') [MT should study carefully Commons speech by John Smith, seeking to drive wedge between her and Major over EMU] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1734 to FCO (0317Z) ("Secretary General's mission to Israel") ["Resolution deploring Israel's refusal to receive mission... passed unanimously... Bein (Israel) accused the Council of having been diverted from the real issue of Iraq/Kuwait"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2602 to FCO (2128Z) ("Ad hoc consultations of members of the Military Staff Committtee (MSC)") ["US express "disappointment" that UK will not be sending senior military representative... for meeting on 29 October"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 note to MT (overnight telegrams & article in Times newspaper) ["this week-end's unnecessary European Council"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 minute: Cradock to Powell ("The Gulf: US views on UN authority for military action") [MT endorses US reservations about practicality of obtaining a further UN resolution as a precedent to military action] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting of Ministers: the Gulf") [UN resolution; letter to Emir of Kuwait: Article 51; Primakov peace mission; US intentions; British communities at risk; Saudi views; meeting with Mitterrand; Iraqi intentions; sanctions; Chief of Defence Staff meeting with Gen Powell; Iraqi missiles] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO telegram 1845 to UKE Washington (0845Z) ("Quadripartite meeting of Political Directors: Gulf") ["Agreement on short and long term aims, including need to limit Iraqi military threat after crisis. US attaches importance to international approbation for any military action... Arab/Israel peace process"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO record of conversation (Hurd, Heath) [Heath's report of his meetings with Saddam Hussein and King Hussein of Jordan; Heath "critical of the trend of our policy"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cold War: Charles Powell conversation record (MT-Hurd) [too risky to invite Gorbachev for a State Visit in 1991] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("European Council in Rome") ["It is set to be a fairly trying occasion" - European political union; EMU; USSR & Eastern Europe; the Gulf; trans-Atlantic relations; sites of EC institutions; Greek loan] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Norman Lamont ("Community Charge Demand Notice") [proposed revisions] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (Merseyside) [police will be staging major operation; allegations against the city council] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	European Council: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("European Council: European Monetary Union") [must stick to line that Hard Ecu COULD evolve into a single currency] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (IRA, Gulf, EC) [IRA's "human bombs" attacks in Londonderry and Newry] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Chris Patten ("Local Authority Finance 1991-92 Charge-Capping") [opposed to any dilution of the criteria] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC/GATT: MT letter to Italian PM Andreotti (Rome European Council agenda) ["we may need to have a good discussion of the GATT Uruguay round"] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC/France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("European Council 27/28 Oct and the PM's bilateral with meeting with Pres Mitterrand: scene setter") [sees EC issues through prism of Franco-German balance; Gulf] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: FCO telegram to UKE Rome ("Secretary of State's bilateral with De Michelis on 25 October") [Council agenda; "foresaw no difficulty in round table discussion of political union in Rome", might be possible to fix starting date for Stage 2 ] [declassified Spt 2019]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Howe PS record of conversation (Howe-Major-Ibbs) [planning and control of expenditure on the works service vote] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: Hurd minute for MT ("Special European Council, Rome: 27/28 October") [Italians want to focus on preparations for the two IGCs; wants target date for transition to EMU Stage II] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: FCO record of conversation (Hurd-Kohl) ["Special European Council in Rome" - hostages in Iraq; date for transition to EMU Stage II, GATT] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1748 to FCO (1400Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Security Council resolution") ["Next Steps resolution... 'peace offensive' draft... The optimism evident at the earlier meetings was quickly dissipated as the Yemenis and Cubans engaged in a prolonged filibuster"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2617 to FCO (2121Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait") ["Americans are under no illusions that air power alone could bring victory... no US led offensive is likely until the higher lever [of US ground forces] can be reached... support [of US public] for the President's Gulf policies... remains pretty steady"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to MODUK ("UK journalists in Saudi Arabia") ["Assurances from the King that British press corps should not decrease in numbers"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait: German assistance to British forces deployed to the Gulf") ["Cost has been and remains the hurdle"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (Charles Powell, French Ambassador to UK) ["Military Staff Committee"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (Charles Powell, US National Security Advisor) ["Gulf crisis": Primakov peace mission to Iraq; US military build-up in Saudi Arabia; US Secretary of State visit to Middle East & London; GATT negotiations] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Prince Bandar") [concerns about possible private negotiations between Iraq-Kuwait-Saudi Arabia; reliability of European allies; Jordan; Syria; treatment of UK journalists in Saudi Arabia; Westland: Black Hawk trade prospects with Saudi Arabia] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to John Major ("Local Authority Interest Rate Swaps") [Hammersmith and Fulham case before the Lords for a judgment] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Local Authority Interest Rate Swaps") [possible outcomes of Lords' judgment on Hammersmith case] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social services: No.10 minute to MT ("Draft statement on child maintenance") [Tony Newton statement to Parliament: suggested amendments] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Education: John O'Sullivan memorandum to MT (education as a major plank in government programme and manifesto) ["consider bringing back Norman Tebbit as Education Secretary"] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	European Council: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Rome: Special European Council: remarks on 23 October by M. Delors") [Boris Johnson Telegraph article] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf, Ireland, Economy, EC) [America ready to send more troops to Gulf] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Barry Potter ("Local Government Finance: Autumn Announcement") [proposals on charge capping] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to Barry Potter ("Chargecapping") [Welsh proposals, police and fire authorities, Scotland] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: John Major minute to MT ("Charge Capping 1991-92") [impact on schools] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to David Waddington ("Community Charge Capping 1991/92") [SSAs for fire authorities] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Geoffrey Howe ("Charge Capping: Lambeth") [preparation for a short separate bill] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing ("Community Charge: Charge Capping, 1991-92") [distribution of TSS] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("Lunch with President Mitterrand: Rome, 27 October") [France internal; Gulf crisis - French position, burden sharing, WEU aspects, Arab/Israel, Lebanon; EC issues - institutional reform; agriculture/GATT; USSR; enlargement; bilateral defence co-operation] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf/EC: No.10 record of conversation (Scowcroft-Powell) [US concern that the French were pushing strongly for an early International Conference on Arab/Israel] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Department of Environment note ("Community Charge: Collection") [impact of non-collection] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC/Italy: J.R. de Fonblanque note for the record ("European Council conclusions") [Britain not given access to drafts] [declassified Spt 2019]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Turnbull minute for MT ("Hard Ecu") [MT concern that hard ecu should not add to money supply; precise mechanism by which it would operate] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Lamont PS minute to Hurd PS ("Autumn Statement Press Notices") [need for a coordinated approach] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 27 Sa	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	EC: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand lunch in Rome) [agriculture/GATT, political union, Germany, EMU, EBRD, enlargement, Soviet Union, the Gulf, defence cooperation] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 27 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: MT & Hurd notes (Special European Council in Rome) [discussions during the Council meeting] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 27 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: MT letter to President Gorbachev (Soviet peace missions to Iraq) ["Saddam Hussein cannot be allowed to bargain over withdrawal"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 27 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Kohl) ["The Gulf: burden-sharing"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 27 Sa	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand lunch in Rome) [agriculture/GATT; European political union; Germany; EMU; Turkey; EBRD; EC membership; USSR; the Gulf; Defence co-operation] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 27 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	European Council: MT speaking note ("European Council - speaking note") [Hurd annotations] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 27 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	European Council: MT speaking note ("European Council - speaking note") [final text] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 27 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	European Council: Report to the European Council by Guido Carli (Council report on EMU) [MT: "NO NO"] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 27 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Council: FCO record of conversation (Special European Council, Rome) [27-28 Oct] [declassified Spt 2019]
90 Oct 28 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: MT letter to UK Ambassador in Rome (thanks for hospitality) ["the less said about the Council itself the better - one longed for the days when Cossiga was in charge"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 28 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome (Kerr) telegrams 917-919 to FCO (1745Z) (discussions on Council conclusions) [Political Union and Sites, EMU, GATT Uruguay Round] [declassified Spt 2019]
90 Oct 28 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (AEI)	EC: Rome European Council (Presidency Conclusions)
90 Oct 29 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1767 to FCO (2207Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Security Council resolution") [full text of demands including "immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all Iraqi forces"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 29 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia) ["Iraq/Kuwait: BBC" - Bandar complaint about lack of neutrality] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 29 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia) [French forces in Saudi Arabia; Primakov peace mission to Iraq; military action and the risk of delay; role of the media] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 29 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO record of conversation (Hurd, Kaufman) [Labour Party's position in event of military action] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 29 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO briefing for MT ("Meeting of Ministers: Gulf") [latest UN resolution; European Council statements on Gulf & hostages; Soviet position; meeting with Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia; breaches of sanctions; French hostages; Kohl on sharing costs of military deployment; James Baker visit to Saudi Arabia; Mitterrand views; Military Staff Committee meeting; US deployments] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 29 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social services: Newton PS letter to No.10 ("Children Come First: the Government's proposals on maintenance for children") [Newton statement to Parliament] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 29 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (EC, Politics, Economy, Gulf) [Delors' plans for single currency] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 29 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Italy: President Cossiga letter to MT (thanks for visit) [ties of friendship and alliance] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 29 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Community Charge: Charge Capping, 1991-92") [Welsh arrangements, fire services] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 29 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Barry Potter ("Autumn Announcement") [statement on local government finance] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 29 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Moore PS minute to Patten PS ("Local Government Finance: Autumn Announcement") [de minimis rule] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 29 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: MacGregor PS minute to Patten PS ("Local Government Finance: Autumn Announcement") [additional educational needs factor] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 29 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Community Charge: Impact of Collection Rates") [action to raise collection rates] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 29 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to Barry Potter ("Community Charge: Non-Collection") [Audit Commission report] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 29 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Scotland: John Whittingdale minute for MT ("Lord Sanderson") [position of the party in Scotland] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 29 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	European Council: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Uruguay Round: German press comment") [some coverage] [unclassified; released Spt 2019]
90 Oct 29 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	NHS: Carolyn Sinclair minute to MT ("First Audit Commission report on the NHS") [helps knock on head notion that long waiting times mainly caused by a lack of money] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 29 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: UKE Madrid telegram 937 to FCO (1900Z) ("President Gorbachev's Visit to Spain") ["Hastily arranged visit: short on substance but long on goodwill"] [released Dec 2017]
90 Oct 30 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Letter from Kuwaiti Crown Prince and Prime Minister") [draft MT reply] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 30 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1776 to FCO (0315Z) ("Ad hoc meeting of military staff committee (MSC): 29 October") ["new Security Council resolution adopted earlier in the day... present meeting, which took place by fortunate coincidence... clearly signalled the determination of the Five to work together until Iraq backed down"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 30 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1768 to FCO (0230Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Security Council resolution") ["At the last moment Yemenis decided to abstain... Americans... will do everything necessary to protect their citizens"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 30 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (EC, GATT, Gulf) [MT refuses to apologise for attacks on Euro leaders] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 30 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Cradock minute to Powell ("The Gulf") [US military planning] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 30 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1769 to FCO (0249Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Security Council resolution: comment") ["resolution has now been adopted... bitterness aroused by this act of bad faith [Yemeni last-minute abstention] spread a good deal wider than the US delegation... last-minute delay brought about by the Soviet Union seems... to have actually strengthened [the resolution's] political effect"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 30 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1778 to FCO (2149Z) ("Middle East issues: next steps at the UN") ["Washington thirsting for a whole series of single issue resolutions... would do better with a multi-purpose resolution"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 30 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO ("Meeting of Special Representatives, 30 Oct 1990: Presidency handling of the Rome European Council") ["Some helpful (to us) chiding of the presidency for rushing its fences in Rome"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 30 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: David Waddington minute to Chris Patten ("Local Government Finance 1991-92: Autumn Announcement and Community Charge Capping") [SSA formula] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 30 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to John MacGregor (school leavers) [comparatively unfair treatment] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 30 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	European Council: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("European Council: German reactions: EMU") ["Comment on the British position has been sober and unpolemical"] [unclassified; released Spt 2019]
90 Oct 30 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [public expenditure and Autumn Statement; next steps on EMU] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 31 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cold War: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Gorbachev's visit to Paris") [briefing from Quai d'Orsay on Franco-Soviet Treaty, visit "longer on form than substance"] [declassified Dec 2017]
90 Oct 31 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1793 to FCO (2133Z) ("Hostages held by Iraq") [De Cuellar dismisses overture from Willy Brandt to give UN status to his diplomatic mission to Iraq] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 31 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2641 to FCO (0045Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: statements by the President and Baker") ["uncompromising"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 31 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: MT letter to Sheikh Sa'ad al Sabah of Kuwait (Iraqi occupation) ["I share your outrage... We must maintain... international solidarity"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 31 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Tom King PS letter to No.10 ("Iraq/Kuwait") [UK position paper] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 31 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO ("BBC External Services and Saudi Arabia/Yemen") [King critical of BBC reporting from Sanaa] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 31 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [the Gulf; follow-up to European Council; Syria; Royal Anniversary Trust] [declassified Jul 2019]
90 Oct 31 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: No.10 press digest to MT (Gulf, EC, economy, industry, education) [reaction to MT Commons statement] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 31 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (EC, Economy, Gulf) [Hussein puts troops on alert] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 31 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Chris Patten letter to colleagues (distribution of grant to local authorities) [political points] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 31 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Patten PS note to Barry Potter ("Local Government Finance Statement") [final version] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 31 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Council: FCO telegram to UKE Rome and other posts ("Special European Council, Rome, 27/28 October") [line to take; bull points; "This was not a one-subject summit"] [unclassified; released Spt 2019]
90 Oct 31 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	European Council: FCO internal minute for press department ("Special European Council") ["Bull points on Rome"] [unclassified; released Spt 2019]
90 Oct 31 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Turkey: DTI minute to No.10 ("Turksat, Turkey") [declassified Dec 2017]
90 Oct 31 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Hurd minute for MT ("EC Enlargement") [support for the Eastern European countries] [declassified Jul 2018]
90 Nov 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKA Jedda telegram to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait: Primakov Tour: Discussion with Prince Saud") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2656 to FCO (0430Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait") [additional troop deployments the Gulf] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1797 to FCO (0207Z) ("Hostages Held by Iraq") [Brandt visit to Baghdad] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd) [Iraq/Kuwait: latest developments] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Cradock minute for MT ("The Gulf: US Military Planning") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Emergency Unit minute to FCO ("Conditions in Kuwait") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO minute for Powell (the German press release on the Brandt issue) [Willy Brandt decided to travel to Baghdad without a mandate from the UN Secretary-General] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: MODUK telegram to Army Intelligence units ("Operation Granby Intelligence Sitrep as at 012359Z Nov 90") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Tony Newton minute to Chris Patten ("Community Charge: Exemption for School Leavers") [don't want a repeat of last Session's wrangling over students] [released July 2017]
90 Nov 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to No.10 ("Hammersmith & Fulham: House of Lords Case") [banks have no case, all local authority swap deals are ultra vires] [released July 2017]
90 Nov 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: No.10 press digest to MT (Gulf, Europe, etc) [reactions to MT's Commons statement; Hurd] [released Feb 2020]
90 Nov 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (EC, Economy, Gulf) [Bush says he has run out of patience with Hussein] [released Feb 2020]
90 Nov 1 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Major PS minute to Barry Potter ("The Industry Act Forecast") [minimise risks that forecasts will be quickly confounded] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Major PS minute to Riley ("Autumn Statement: Oral Statement") [new plans represent a very tight settlement] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: David Waddington minute to Peter Lilley ("Broadcasting Ownership") [proposal to bar continguous ownership criticised] [declassified Dec 2017]
90 Nov 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Kuwait/Iraq: Soviet Policy: Call on Primakov") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2671 to FCO (0330Z) ("The Gulf - Baker's Tour") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2679 to FCO (2216Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Next Steps at the UN") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2668 to FCO (0005Z) ("Syrian Position") [US unwilling to improve relations with Syria until it severs links with international terrorism] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1818 to FCO (0230Z) ("Occupied Territories: Secretary General's Report") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1820 to FCO (0240Z) ("Initial Reactions to Secretary-General's Report") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Powell minute for MT ("Talk with President Bush") [topics for expected phone call - worry that additional reinforcements might prevent early action] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO briefing for MT ("The Gulf Crisis") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO minute for Powell ("Prime Minister's Meeting with King Hussein, Geneva, 6 November") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO minute for Powell (Japanese Prime Minister letter to MT: draft reply) [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European policy: Powell minute for MT ("CSCE Summit in Paris: 19-21 November") [programme "immensely elaborate", plenary sessions with 35 speakers - "Immensely boring, I fear, but no way to avoid it"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Norman Lamont ("1991-92 AEF for Scotland: RSG/NDRI Split") [proposes increasing the average Scottish poundage by same absolute amount as in England] [released July 2017]
90 Nov 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: No.10 minute ("Interest Rate Swaps - The Hammersmith and Fulham Case") [next step is for courts to establish what in principle can be enforced] [released July 2017]
90 Nov 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: No.10 press digest to MT ("Howe Resignation") ["Your most dangerous crisis since Westland"] [released Feb 2020]
90 Nov 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Howe resignation, Gulf) [Howe storms out in row over Europe] [released Feb 2020]
90 Nov 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	NHS: Carolyn Sinclair minute to MT ("Implementation of the NHS Reforms") [more optimism about prospects for smooth transition] [released July 2017]
90 Nov 3 Sa	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: HMA Kuwait (via UKE Abu Dhabi) telegram to FCO ("Haute Cuisine") [poor diet in UKE Kuwait] [unclassified; released Jul 2017]
90 Nov 3 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2689 to FCO (0100Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait") [President's public statements spreading confusion] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 3 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1836 to FCO (0330Z) ("Brandt Mission to Iraq") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 3 Sa	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of telephone conversation (Powell, General Scowcroft) [background for MT forthcoming talk with President Bush: Administration debates] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 4 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO ("Hostage Policy") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 4 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Powell minute for MT ("Meeting of Ministers: The Gulf") [activity at the UN; hostages; sanctions; meeting with King Hussein; embassies in Kuwait; US forces] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Amman telegram to FCO ("Visit of Mr. Michael Heseltine") [Jordan's position on the Gulf unchanged; gloomy assessment of Jordan's political and economic prospects] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Muscat telegram to FCO ("Oman/Jordan/Saudi Arabia") [Omanis pressure King Hussein to mend fences with the Saudis] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Muscat telegram to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait: Soviet Policy") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO minute for Powell (Iraq/Kuwait: UK position paper) [proposes three amendments] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO paper (Iraq/Kuwait: positive information campaign) [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Hurd minute for MT ("Kuwait") [US military activity; Security Council resolution] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Tom King minute for Hurd ("Rolls Royce: Engines for an Argentine Destroyer") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: MT letter to Japanese Prime Minister (Japan's role in crisis) [thanks for account of Middle East your; "welcome your firmness"; support for costs] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	G7: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("London Economic Summit") [associating the Soviet Union to the Summit, theme for the Summit] [released July 2017]
90 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("1991-92 AEF for Scotland: RSG/NDRI Split") [difference of treatment between Scotland and England/Wales] [released July 2017]
90 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (EC-Tory Party, Economy, Gulf) [Tory big guns open fire on Heseltine] [released Feb 2020]
90 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	European Council: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("The Week in Europe" - Commission publication) [objects to comment "UK was isolated"] [declassified Spt 2019]
90 Nov 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Special EPC Ministerial: Hostage Policy") [UK blocks, "with scant support", German attempt to swing EPC behind approach to Iraq to release hostages] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Powell minute for MT (Iraq/Kuwait: Directive for Military Commanders in the Gulf) [last minute FCO amendments] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Gorbachev letter to MT (The Gulf crisis: Soviet views) [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Sky-BSB merger") [major features of the merger, and background information] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Chris Patten (consequences of non-payment) [growing concern about the problem in Scotland] [released July 2017]
90 Nov 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Governor of the Bank of England letter to John Major ("Local Authority Interest Rate Swaps") [need for a government statement following Lords' provisional judgment] [released July 2017]
90 Nov 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("PM's Speech in Queen's Speech Debate") [form of words for her to use on interest rates] [released Feb 2020]
90 Nov 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Council: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("The Rome Special European Council: prospects for Anglo-Italian relations") [Ambassador's post mortem on Italian policy at the Council] [declassified Spt 2019]
90 Nov 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Labour Party memorandum ("The Intergovernmental Conference on Economic and Monetary Union") ["position paper" agreed by Shadow Cabinet and Policy Sub-Committee][declassified July 2017]
90 Nov 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Tom King minute to MT ("PES: The Defence Programme") [severity of prorgamme decisions] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Major PS minute to Barry Potter (Autumn Statement latest draft) [had to take tough decisions in the interests of the economy] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Lamont PS minute to Hurd PS ("Autumn Statement Press Notices") [arrangements] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Norman Lamont minute to MT ("Science and Technology") [spending agreements defendable in a difficult year] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Bush Library)	Gulf War: Jim Baker note for President Bush (meeting Saudis) [declassified 1999]
90 Nov 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Powell minute for MT ("Meeting of Ministers: The Gulf") [Diplomatic - Activity at UN, Hostages, Meeting with King Hussein, Message from Gorbachev, Baker visit, Sanctions, Embassies in Kuwait; Military - US forces] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (Powell, Soviet Ambassador) [Soviet views on the Gulf] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO minute for Powell ("Mr Primakov's Mission") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Douglas Hurd minute for Lamont ("Chemical Warfare Equipment for Civilians in the Gulf") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 7 We	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UK position paper ("Iraq/Kuwait: UK Position Paper") [Strategic Objectives, Military Objectives, Guidance to military commanders, Co-ordination with allies] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: MOD letter to No.10 (UK position on Iraq/Kuwait: amendments to draft position) [concern at some FCO amendments] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Colonel David Glantz paper ("Potential Soviet Influences on Iraqi Army Operations") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: "John Smith" letter to The Independent ("The View from Inside Kuwait") [British man in Kuwait warns that every diplomatic initiative "prolongs the agony", only military action will end the regime; MT marked copy] [released 2017]
90 Nov 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Rifkind PS minute to Patten PS ("Community Charge Exemption for 18 and 19 Year Old School Leavers") [potential issues with legislation, difficulties with collection] [released July 2017]
90 Nov 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Policy Groups") [recovery strategy; MT: "Will consider later - after Monday!"] [released Feb 2020]
90 Nov 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: Charles Powell note to MT (praises her speech on the Address) ["you broke the Opposition by sheer courage and force of personality"] [released Feb 2020]
90 Nov 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Tory Party, Gulf) [You flush out leadership challengers - by setting timetable for any election] [released Feb 2020]
90 Nov 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Europe: Ed Llewellyn minute to Kenneth Baker ("Forthcoming European Events") [EDG visiting London; "the potential for public displays of division ... is great indeed"] [released Feb 2020]
90 Nov 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Monetary Policy: Barry Potter minute to MT ("RPI for October 1990") ["reasonably good news"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Norman Lamont minute to MT ("PES 1990: The Defence Programme") [has reached a cautious settlement] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 7 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Cabinet: 1990 Public Expenditure Survey") [progress in bringing down inflation] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Cabinet: 1990 Public Expenditure Survey") [Chancellor's speaking note] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 7 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Autumn Statement") [presentation arrangements] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Major PS minute to Barry Potter ("Autumn Statement Cabinet") [this has been a tough settlement] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Robin Butler minute to MT ("Cabinet: 1990 Public Expenditure Survey. Paper by the Chief Secretary: C(90)9") [discussion of departmental settlements] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Peter Lilley minute to David Waddington ("Broadcasting Ownership") [definition of "large" licence areas] [declassified Dec 2017]
90 Nov 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: David Waddington minute to Peter Lilley ("IBA Transmission Privatisation: Economic Regulation") [regulatory framework for Channel 5 masts, sites] [declassified Dec 2017]
90 Nov 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Bush Library)	Gulf War: Jim Baker report for President Bush (meeting Mubarak & Chinese FM) [declassified 1999]
90 Nov 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Ankara telegram to FCO ("Visit of Secretary Baker to Turkey") [no partial solution to the Gulf Crisis] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait: Baker's Visit") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2730 to FCO (0205Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Legal Issues") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1891 to FCO (2235Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Recourse to the United Nations") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Powell letter to General Scowcroft (draft guidelines for UK military commanders in the Gulf - seeks US view) [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Douglas Hurd minute for MT ("The Permanent Five and Arab/Israel") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Minister for Trade minute for Chief Secretary ("Iraq: Premium Refunds") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO briefing for MT ("Constraining Iraq's Nuclear, CBW and Missile Capability") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO minute for Powell ("Refugee Crisis in the Middle East: Call by Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO minute for Powell ("Iraq/Kuwait: BBC World Service") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 8 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Tony Newton ("Pensions Ombudsman: Local Government Superannuation Scheme") [oversight of maladministration] [released July 2017]
90 Nov 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: Ingham briefing for MT ("BBC Lunch") ["very hard words" with John Sergeant "disgraceful journalism in forecasting a challenge to you on the basis of gossip"] [released Feb 2020]
90 Nov 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Queen's Speech debate, Industry) [MT's warning to Iraq to get out of Kuwait] [released Feb 2020]
90 Nov 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	NHS: Carolyn Sinclair minute to MT ("BMA Attitude") [BMA will not launch another campaign against the reforms] [released July 2017]
90 Nov 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Treasury draft ("Autumn Statement") [a settlement fully consistent with government's commitments] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: William Stewart minute to MT ("Public Expenditure on Science and Technology") [spending settlement will be criticised] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Bush Library)	Gulf War: Jim Baker note for President Bush (meeting Gorbachev & Shevardnadze) [declassified 1999]
90 Nov 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait: Visit of Baker to Moscow") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2742 to FCO (0601Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait") [the US Gulf policy & public opinion; Baker's visit to London] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2741 to FCO (0600Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: US Deployments") [President Bush announces increase in US forces] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2747 to FCO (2200Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Possible BW Threat") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Powell minute to FCO ("Possible Visit by the Prime Minister to the Gulf") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Powell minute to FCO ("Refugee Crisis in the Middle East: Call by Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Douglas Hurd minute for MT ("Economic effects of the Gulf crisis on our main Aid recipients") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO record of conversation (Douglas Hurd, James Baker) [Iraq/Kuwait: hostages; command and control; embassies in Kuwait; views of Arab countries; Jordan; Syria; German attitudes] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Norman Lamont ("1991-92 AEF for Scotland: RSG/NDRI Split") [logical to increase the average Scottish poundage by same absolute amount as in England] [released July 2017]
90 Nov 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: David Hunt minute to Norman Lamont ("1991-92 AEF for Scotland: RSG/NDRI Split") [has to defend a poundage which is higher than in England] [released July 2017]
90 Nov 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to John MacGregor ("New Burdens on Local Government") [lists of central government initiatives] [released July 2017]
90 Nov 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: Ingham minute to MT ("BBC Lunch") ["potentially serious trouble" for John Sergeant] [released Feb 2020]
90 Nov 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Autumn Statement, Gulf) [You are first out of the starting gate in any leadership race] [released Feb 2020]
90 Nov 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: John Tusa letter to Charles Powell (BBC World Service) [thanks for 6 percent real terms increase in Autumn Statement] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Bush Library)	Gulf War: Jim Baker note for President Bush (meeting MT & Hurd) [declassified 1999]
90 Nov 10 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO minute for Powell ("Gulf Crisis: Political Preliminaries to Military Action") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Nov 10 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Bush Library)	Gulf War: Jim Baker note for President Bush (meeting Mitterrand & Dumas) [declassified 1999]
90 Nov 11 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait: Discussion with Crown Prince") [declassified Jul 2017]

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