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The Natioanal Security Archive - 5 Documents: Record of Conversation between Thatcher and Gorbachev from 1987 and 1989!
… Conclusion
Overall, the documentary record suggests that Margaret Thatcher played a complex role at the end of the Cold War. Her conversations with Gorbachev on general issues of arms control helped make him more open to compromise with the United States, and to carrying out deep unilateral conventional arms reductions in Europe. However, her influence worked in the other direction on nuclear weapons policy, because of her close relationship with Reagan. Her strong stance in defense of nuclear weapons was one factor that prevented the historic breakthrough that Reagan and Gorbachev almost achieved in Reykjavik, and kept trying to return to afterwards. This deep and principled disagreement between Gorbachev and Thatcher on the value and role of nuclear weapons ultimately meant her influence on Gorbachev was stronger in the sphere of domestic politics, and especially the economy, but not as strong on overall foreign policy and arms control.
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VALDICE Prison: On Sunday, April 7th, I went on to visit Mr. Gilbert F. McCrae, an American citizen imprisoned in this infamous prison (that housed hardest criminals and most political prisoners during the Communist tyrannical rule) for the murder he did not commit. I brought him dozens of well-wishes and apologies for crude behavior of our so called “officials”, coming from the scores of our members and my readers who are following his odyssey through our so called “Czech judicial system”. After about three-hour meeting with this man, I was leaving him with my confusing feelings: our help could come too late. I remember him from two years ago, and what I have seen now – the change how he looks - is quite shocking. When I had seen him for the first time when he stepped into the visitor’s room, I could not believe that this is the same man I knew – the first what came to my mind was a vision of my father in his coffin – he posted a vision of a walking dead. He lost a lot of weight, he looks like a skeleton, but the most worrisome is the loss of his will to fight – the loss of his energy and stamina. Two years ago, in the Pankrac prison, he was a man, convinced of his innocence and for that reason full of fighting spirit to face his adversaries, but today he is more or less a broken wreck not fully understanding why this is all happening to him, and moving on a mental roller-coaster – as he himself confided in me – going from one extreme of raging anger to the opposite of total helplessness and self-pity.
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Date: March of 1938 (audio speech, file available)
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11.2.2012 - High Court Prague put on a performance comparable to those in the 50´s.
10.6.2012 - Is the writer from Valdice the Tram 22 murderer or an innocent man…?! I’m afraid the second is correct!
24.6.2012 - “Murderer” from Tram No. 22, Gilbert McCray writes to U.S. Ambassador in Prague Norman L.Eisen
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