Downing Street Years - Margaret Thatcher [563]
Saltley Coke Depot picketing (1972), 112, 340, 345
SALT II, 65, 245
Salvation Army, 627
Sanderson, Russell, Lord, 623
Sands, Bobby, 391
Santer, Jacques, 552
satellite broadcasting, 635, 638
Saudi Arabia: MT’s visit (1981), 162; Gulf crisis (1990), 818, 820–2
savings ratio (1988–9), 674
Scargill, Arthur: presidency of NUM, 140, 143, 340, 341; response to 1983 election, 339; Saltley pickets, 340; miners’ strike (1984–5), 349–52, 354–5, 360, 363–6, 373–6; fined for contempt, 368; Libyan connection, 351, 369
Scarman, Lord, 143, 144
Schild family, 83
Schluter, Poul (Danish Prime Minister 1982–93), 731, 740, 751
Schmidt, Helmut (German Chancellor 1979–82): visit (1979), 34–5; EC, 61–2, 79, 83–4, 552; G7, 67–70, 165, 257; visit (1980), 83; ERM question, 83, 692; Falklands, 191; nuclear policy, 240–2, 245, 246, 249, 258–9, 771; achievements, 813
Scholey, Bob, 112
schools, see education, grant-maintained
Schools Examination and Assessment Council, 594
science, 639–41
Scoon, Sir Paul, 330
Scotland: housing policy, 602, 621, 623; Health Boards, 608n; Thatcherism rebuffed, 618–24; rate revaluations, 645, 647; community charge, 651, 652, 653, 655; electricity industry, 682; Church of, 704
Scotland Act, 36
Scottish Conservative Conferences, 35–6, 221, 291, 561–2, 576, 704
Scowcroft, General Brent, 788, 820
Seccombe, Dame Joan, 582
Selsdon Group, 154
Selsdon Man, 13
Shackleton, Lord, 175
Shah, Eddie, 348
Shakespeare, William, 106
Shamir, Yitzhak (Israeli Prime Minister 1983–84, 1986–92), 510–12
Shcherbitsky, Vladimir, 802
Sheffield, HMS, 216–17
Shelton, Bill, 830
Shenfield, Arthur, 6
Sherbourne, Stephen: election campaign (1983), 291; MT-Tebbit meetings, 564; Strategy Group, 565; MT’s speeches, 567; manifesto (1987), 572–3; election campaign (1987), 579, 586–7, 588
Sherman, Alfred, 133
Shevardnadze, Eduard (Soviet Foreign Minister 1985–90), 773
Shrimsley, Tony, 285, 287
Shultz, George (US Secretary of State 1982–89), 256, 333, 461, 468, 473, 783
Sidewinder missiles, 226, 227
Sihanouk, Prince, 506
Sikorsky, 426–31, 436
Silkin, John, 296
Silkin, Sam, 98
Singapore, MT’s visit (1985), 504–5
Single European Act, 555–7, 558, 741
Sinn Fein, 394–5, 397, 401, 406, 408, 412
Sir Galahad, 233
Sirs, Bill, 103, 109, 111–12
Sir Tristram, 233
Skinner, Dennis, 859
SLADE, 98, 102
Smith, Adam, 291, 618
Smith, Hector, 111
Smith, Ian, 72
Soames, Christopher, Lord (Leader HL 1979–81), 27, 77–8, 79, 151
Soames, Mary, 78
Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), 387, 391, 394–5, 400, 403–4, 410
Social Democratic Party (SDP), 153, 264–5, 274, 298, 573–4
socialism: democratic, 6–7; debilitating effects, 9; appearance and reality, 12; Labour Party, 265, 566; ingrained, 306; failure, 625; reversal of, 687; Poland, 779
Socialist Workers Party, 293
social security benefits, 49, 55, 127
society, ‘no such thing’, 626
Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), 119
Soeharto, Thojib N.J., 503
SOGAT, 113
Solidarity, 156, 252, 777–82, 789
Solzhenitzyn, Alexander, 290, 452, 813
South Africa: political issue, 78, 91, 487, 512–13; British relationship, 160, 512–13; sporting relations, 166; sanctions, 166, 515–16, 517–19, 532, 534; Commonwealth relations, 502–3, 512, 516–19, 520–4, 530–1; Botha’s Chequers visit, 514–15; debt repayment freeze, 515; Chequers seminar, 515–16; ‘Eminent Persons Group’, 518–19; changes, 522, 531–2; Namibia, 528–9; leadership, 529; MT’s visit, 533
Southall riots (1981), 143–4
Southern Thule, 176
South Georgia, 174, 177, 179, 196, 201, 204–5, 208–9, 219
South Sandwich Islands, 174, 176
South-West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO), 529
Sovietologists, 451, 474
Soviet Union: growing threat, 9; Iron Lady title, 65; Kosygin discussions, 65–6; Afghanistan invasion, 65, 69, 87–8; military spending, 238; nuclear capability, 239; Brezhnev’s arms reduction proposals, 242; West Siberian Gas Pipeline, 253–6; South Korean