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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Tizane Navea-Rogers

This Week in History: Isolation for Thatcher and Clinton on cusp of landslide victory

Retrospective: a week of turning points that shaped the world - (The Independent)

The political death knell rings for Margaret Thatcher as a difficult European summit intensifies Cabinet rifts at home, setting the wheels in motion for her ultimate downfall. Trouble also calls for Silvio Berlusconi who is convicted of fraud, while the Bush administration faces criminal indictments over a retaliatory CIA leak. From a landslide second term victory for Bill Clinton to sectarian violence gripping both Belfast and Baghdad, all is captured across this week’s front pages.

29 October 1990 – Thatcher isolated at European summit over single currency

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