Thatcher tales on the Commonwealth: staving off sanctions. (against South Africa; Margaret Thatcher)

From: The New Leader | Date: July 14, 1986| Author: Gelb, Norman | Copyright information

Thatcher Takes On the Commonwealth

"A WHITE MAN'S gang" was how the sports columnist of the London Daily Express described the Commonwealth games when they opened in Edinburgh on July 24. The quadrennial competition is supposed to symbolize the amity that ideally prevails among the 49 nations banded together under the British monarch, comprising a great diversity of races, religions and cultures. But no fewer than 31 of those countries--including the largest, India--elec...

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