Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 21, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 Winnipeg free press tuesday april Thatcher s visit raises stir in India by Bruce Loudon daily Telegraph London new Delhi prime minister Margaret Thatcher s visit has raised a storm of protest in the Indian parliament with opposition members demanding an urgent government statement on what they alleged to be her communist members of the Raja Sabha the upper House joined members of the Small janata and lok dal opposition parties yesterday in decrying Thatcher for. As world Denis Thatcher gets High rating for Good humor daily Telegraph London new Delhi while Indian newspapers continued to give wide coverage to British prime minister Margaret Thatcher s visit Here even though she has left the country times of India columnist Gul liver focused the limelight for a change on Denis Thatcher the prime minister s publicity shy husband. The newspaper quoted Denis Thatcher who accompanied his wife during her visit As saying at one Point that when the family moved to 10 Downing Street he was asked who wears the pants in this his answer recounted yesterday by Gul liver who spoke to Thatcher during the visit was i Wear the pants and i also Wash and Iron the columnist used the Story to Illus trate what he regards As Thatcher s Good humor. By contrast to the prime minis Denis Thatcher was More relaxed and moderate and did his duties As the visiting Premier s Consort with the columnist notes. Elsewhere yesterday it was recalled that at a reception Given by the British High commissioner to India sir John Thomson Thatcher was seen to decline a drink from a Silver tray carried by a bearer dressed in starched White uniform. At the time he was chatting to a Young woman guest at the reception. Wait a she said. You be declined a drink that s not the image of the Man we know from the dear Bill letters in the newspaper feature private Thatcher laughed loudly but still declined the drink. Is the private Eye image the Young lady pressed. Of Well it s All Jolly Good said Thatcher moving on to speak to another group of guests. Only once it seems did Thatcher be come slightly irritated. That was when he accompanied the prime minister on a visit to peasant villages near Delhi. He found himself being jostled by local and foreign newsmen. Damn he was heard to say. They re the same the world they put it defending the British Racia list policy and . Arms supplies to Paki Stan during her visit last week. Chairman Mohammad has Atullah of the Raja Sabha who is also India s vice presi Dent said he would hold consultations and then advise members whether such a debate could be held. During her visit to India Thatcher stoutly defended both her government s policies on race relations in Britain and the West s determination to press ahead with the Paige Caie rearming of Pakistan. Both issues Are highly emotive ones in the Indian political context and yesterday s up Roar was inevitable. What remains to be seen now is How prime minister Indira Gandhi s government will respond to the demands for a full dress debate on the Thatcher visit. The anti British outbursts in the Raja Sabha were matched in the lower House the lok Sabha where government maps demanded the expulsion from India of sir Richard Attenborough the film producer. Attenborough is in the final stages of producing his controversial epic on the life and times of the late Mahatma Gandhi. Maps complained bitterly government maps complained bitterly that indians working on the film set were being subjected to racial and that the wages and working conditions of indians working on the film were far inferior to those of British employees. Kumud Zaoshi Deputy minister of information and broadcasting promised to look into the complaints. While alleged racism in Britain and by britons again raised tempers in Parlia ment the Indian Media continued to devote Many columns to the Thatcher visit. Most newspapers carried Long editorials yesterday on the Thatcher visit and the conclusion of most Leader writers seems to be that Given the circumstances and the inevitable differences of opinion and perception the visit went rather Well. Praised for toughness the prime minister is praised for her toughness and her Resolution even on issues such As the rearming of Pakistan in which she is in direct disagreement with Gandhi. It has inevitably been left to the soviets to articulate the unkind St cuts about Thatcher s visit. According to reports in the Indian press yesterday Moscow s Tass in dispatches from Delhi during the visit asserted that she displayed Imperial haughtiness and unwillingness to reckon with the opinion of the other news analyst Sergei Budantsev said India rejected a dish of Bourgeois propaganda from Thatcher about the threat of soviet expansionism in the area As Well As her views on the american arming of Paki Stan. Perhaps the most embarrassing to mrs. Thatcher was the question of the Glar ing discrimination that the people of Indian descent were being subjected to in Tass added. The recent Brixton events have Laid Bare one of the most disgusting features of British fact that racism towards the coloured people who come from former British colonies is rampant in a country that boasts of its separate a cities for both men and women swimming pools Sauna Baths steam Baths Sun rooms Whirlpool Baths private showers private dressing Booths adults to condition with hair dryers vanity area private lockers european i health spa visiting British prime minister Margaret Thatcher chats with saudi saudis claim peace will deter russians Riyadh renter British rim a Ftp to Riyadh Reuter British prime minister Margaret Thatcher was told yesterday that settlement of the Arab israeli dispute is the Best Way to ease tensions in the Middle East and thus reduce the risk of soviet expansion in the area. Thatcher in saudi Arabia to hear saudi views on the Middle East and to boost Britain s political and Trade ties held talks with Crown Prince fahd after informal exchanges with King Khalid sunday night. Sources indicated that saudi Ara Bia its weight in Middle East affairs stemming partly from its huge Oil wealth told Thatcher what it told . State Secretary Alexander Haig that saudi Arabia does not favor a . Military presence in the area As a deterrent to soviet or other threats to the persian Gulf Oil Fields. The sources reiterated the saudi View that the West should talk with the Palestine liberation Organiza Tion and that Only the United states could ultimately create a Middle East peace because of its influence with Israel. The sources also stressed that saudia Arabia and other Gulf states should be Able to obtain Western arms. Thatcher is expected to Sug Gest the Tornado Multi role combat plane a joint project of Britain and West Germany to the saudis. 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