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86 Mar 28 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Libya: US Ambassador Charles Price card to MT (thanks) [her support over US exercises in Gulf of Sidra] [released Jan 2017]
86 Apr 9 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Libya: MT letter to US Ambassador to West Germany Richard Burt (Berlin bomb) ["horrified … by the dreadful incident"] [released Jan 2017]
86 Apr 15 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Libya: UKE Washington telegram 948 to FCO (0350Z) (“Libya crisis”) [text of Reagan broadcast] [released Jan 2017]
86 Apr 15 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Libya: UKE Washington telegram 949 to FCO (0425Z) (“Libya crisis: Shultz/Weinberger press conference”) [“tolerance or appeasement of aggression has historically brought more aggression”] [released Jan 2017]
86 Apr 15 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Libya: FCO briefing (“Colonel Quadhafi support for terrorism”) [“Quadhafi said that he would train, arm and protect Arab guerillas and other volunteers for ‘suicide and terrorist missions’”] [released Jan 2017]
86 Apr 15 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Libya: Stephen Sherbourne minute to MT (“Your speech tomorrow (Wednesday)”) [concerns over Reagan “provoking Qadhafi” … “people are unconvinced about what precisely and how much the US action will achieve”] [released Jan 2017]
86 Apr 15 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Libya: US Information Service fact sheet (Libya) [US acting in self-defence, Reagan on US successes, questions and answers] [released Jan 2017]
86 Apr 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Libya: UKE Washington telegram 978 to FCO (2359Z) (“US/Libya”) [US administration is “immensely appreciative”; "future benefits for us"] [released Jan 2017]
86 Apr 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Libya: MT draft speech (Libya House of Commons debate) [government’s decision to support US military action, “taken in self-defence, against terrorist targets in Libya”] [released Jan 2017]
86 Apr 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Libya: MT notes for speech (Libya House of Commons debate) [evidence we have of Libyan complicity] [released Jan 2017]
86 Apr 16 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Libya: No.10 minute (Tony Baldry phone call) [opinion in Upper Heyford on US military action] [released Jan 2017]
86 Apr 17 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Libya: FCO situation report (“Libya: Sitrep No.7: 17 April 1986 (0630Z)”) [Tripoli, Gaddafi, European reactions, Libyans in UK, British hostages Beirut, Public Reaction, US evacuation Sudan] [released Jan 2017]
86 Apr 17 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Libya: Sir Geoffrey Howe letter to Conservative MPs (government position on Libyan crisis) [evidence of Libyan-sponsored terrorism] [released Jan 2017]
86 Apr 18 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Libya: MT letter to US Ambassador to UK Charlie Price (thanks for his letter) ["vital to stand up to terrorism even though the price can be very harsh, as the murder of the hostages has shown"] [released Jan 2017]
86 Apr 18 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Libya: Caspar Weinberger letter to MT (action in Libya) [“Your courage and strength is a source of great inspiration to all of us”] [released Jan 2017]
86 Apr 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: Stephen Sherbourne minute ("Notes on future speeches") [Libya raid changing defence debate to Labour advantage] [released Jan 2017]
86 Apr 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Libya: MT letter to Dr David Owen (responds to his letter of 17 Apr) ["I reserved the position of the UK on any question of further action which might be more general or less clearly directed against terrrorism"] [released Jan 2017]
86 Apr 24 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Libya: MT letter to Paul Johnson (thanks for writing) ["a very difficult time for me … your booklet on the seven deadly sins of Terrorism most helpful … sapping the will of civilisation to resist"] [released Jan 2017]
86 Apr 27 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Libya: Nick Edwards letter to MT (reasoned response to raid on Tripoli) [his wife's critical letter; arguments for & against the raid; MT placed in "a horrendously difficult position"] [released Jan 2017]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Libya: MT to Bob Dole (support for US military action) [“the Administration was right to take firm action against terrorism, and I have no reservations about the part which the United Kingdom was able to play”] [released Jan 2017]
86 Jul 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	South Africa: Charles Powell minute (press reports of rift with Palace) ["our policy of dignified silence is paying off"] [released Jan 2017]
86 Jul 22 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	South Africa: Charles Powell minute for Ingham (Graham Turner interview) ["on no account" publish in full before Commowealth Conference: 'Please!'] [released Jan 2017]
86 Jul 31 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	South Africa: Charles Powell minute for MT ("South Africa") [avoid an argument in OD] [released Jan 2017]
86 Aug 1 Fr	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	South Africa: Sir Geoffrey Howe letter for MT (South Africa) ["extreme concern at the way matters have been managed in relation to yesterday's OD discussion"] [released Jan 2017]
86 Aug 2 Sa	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	South Africa: MT draft letter to Sir Geoffrey Howe (South Africa) [defends Ingham, "some of your people subsequently behaved very badly"; "your dedicated and stout-hearted efforts in South Africa"] [released Jan 2017]
86 Aug 26 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	South Africa: UKHC Harare letter to FCO ("Zimbabwe's real policy on sanctions") ['suicide', 'madness' , "just words"; "I am surprised that the British, who taught us hypocrisy, should find our attitude surprising"] [released Jan 2017]
86 Sep 10 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	South Africa: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference") [MT: "I think we have to be very careful about commenting on S. Africa in the presence of The Queen"] [released Jan 2017]
86 Nov 13 Th	Declassified documents	Trivial	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Cold War: Caroline Ryder note for MT (Camp David meeting with President Reagan) ["Latest weather reports are that it is getting colder and it would be advisable for you to take a coat"] [released Jan 2017]
86 Nov 13 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Cold War: MT notes (Camp David meeting with President Reagan) ["Alarmed by suggestion to eliminate in 10 years all strategic ballistic missiles … Security of West in danger"] [released Jan 2017]
86 Nov 13 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Cold War: MT briefing cards (Camp David meeting with President Reagan) ["CAN'T trust RUSSIANS when taking a few tanks & columns out of Afghanistan - surely you wouldn't trust them over ballistic missiles"] [released Jan 2017]

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