Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography

by Margaret Thatcher

  Yeltsin, Boris: and Gorbachev’s reforms, 673–4; relations with Gorbachev, 691

  Yemen, 698

  York, HMS, 697

  Yorkshire NUM, 448, 452

  Young, Andrew, 212

  Young Conservatives Conference, Eastbourne (1975), 173

  Young, David, Baron: as Employment Minister, 484–5; advises on legislative programme, 559; at Department of Trade and Industry, 615; as Deputy Party Chairman, 661

  Young, Janet, Baroness, 250, 331, 418

  Younger, George (later 4th Viscount): and miners’ strike (1984), 442; and IRA strength, 477; cancels Nimrod system, 486; as Defence Secretary, 494; and Heseltine’s resignation over Westland, 494; and US air attack on Libya, 500; in 1987 election campaign, 564; leaves government, 661; in MT’s campaign team for 1990 leadership election, 709, 715, 718; absence from 1990 leadership campaign, 719–20

  Yugoslavia: status, 212; Soviet designs on, 294

  Zambia, 286–7

  Zamyatin, Leonid, 509

  Zhao Ziyang, 391, 525–7

  Zhelev, Zhelyu, 721

  Zimbabwe, Republic of, 289; see also Rhodesia

  Zurich Economic Society, 194

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  Copyright © Margaret Thatcher 1993 and 1995

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  Abridged by Kati Nicholl

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