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Margaret Thatcher styled her hair 120 times in a single year: Secret files reveal all

New Delhi: In the turbulent Seventies, the then Jana Sangh leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee told the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in the Lok Sabha: "Ma'am, you can fix your hair in five minutes, how

India TV News Desk Updated on: January 07, 2014 6:52 IST
6. Thatcher refused to call for Mandela release

 

Margaret Thatcher refused to call publicly for Nelson Mandela's release from prison during her first official meeting with PW Botha, the former South African prime minister, in 1984.  

Government minutes showed the former UK prime minister only raised concerns about Mandela's detention in a private meeting with Botha — and they were quickly brushed aside.  

Thatcher's decision to tip-toe around the subject will reignite Labour claims that the Conservatives indulged the apartheid regime in the 1980s and did little to assist Mandela, who died last month.
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