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Editorial Thatcher lays down the law On July 28, Margaret Thatcher took to the British air waves to unequivocally reject British participation in "Europe 1992." She attacked the proposals of European Community head, Jacques Delors , for the creation of a supranational European government in the early 1990s as "airy fairy ideas ," and vowed that Delors's vision of a united European government would "never come in my lifetime , and, I hope , never at all ." In an irony of which the French must be particularly sensible, she likened herself to Gen. Charles de Gaulle who had in fact, held up Britain's entrance into the European Economic Community for a decade , much to the disgust of its British Conservative Party advocates. In the 50-minute BBC broadcast, she said that she "was really very much [in agreement] with de Gaulle , that is [his concept ot] a Europe of separate countries working together." Since any one of the countries of the EC has absolute veto power, this means that effectively the Europe 1992 proposal is dead. Informed sources in Britain have told us that this intervention by Mrs . Thatcher was prompted by fears , among top governing circles in Britain, of the shape which the present helter-skelter rush to accommodate the Soviets is taking . The situation inside South Africa has become a focal point of their concerns that the currently emerging arrangement with the Russians will raise another Frankenstein's monster. This section of the British elite remembers all too well how Neville Chatnberlain's policy of accommodation to Adolf Hitler resulted in World War II. They see the so-called pacification of Angola as a Russian move to be in on a grab for South African strategic raw materials, with the tacit agreement of a foolish United States. While the U.S. State Department believes that it is conducting clever negotiations with Moscow , the reality is that a section of the European oligarchy is negotiating another deal behind the scenes, one that would not include the United States. The British , who value their "special relation" with the United States, and the independent bargaining po- 72 National sition which that has given them in the past, are alert to the dangers of this new condominium in the wings-of which Thatcher has now said she wants no part. This "European" condominium would include the Soviets , and would given them a stranglehold on high technol ogy, raw materials, and credit agreements . In the British estimation, South African President P. W. Botha is so enrage
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