Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography (140 page)

Wass, (Sir) Douglas, 322

water: privatization, 623

Watergate, 203

Weekend World
(TV programme), 219, 233–4, 305, 410

Weighell, Sid, 245

Weinberger, Caspar, 349, 374, 385

welfare state: introduced, 38–9

Welsh Party Conference (1975), 186

West Berlin: bomb attack on US servicemen, 500

West Siberian Gas Pipeline, 387–8

Western European Union, 657

Westland helicopter company: controversy over, 484–96, 557

Wheeler, Morris, 49

White, Eirene, 77–8

Whitelaw, William (
later
Viscount): relations with MT, 125, 419; as Employment Secretary, 143; on miners’ pay claim, 145; and manifesto for October 1974 election, 153–4; stands in leadership election, 172–4; as Deputy Leader of Party, 176–7; and Peter Thorneycroft, 180; and economic policy, 187; and Wilson’s incomes policy, 188; on Heath at 1975 Blackpool Conference, 190; as Shadow Home Secretary, 191; and British entry into Europe, 200; on immigration, 223–4; and pay policy, 232; and vote on devolution, 238; opposes TV election debates, 244; in 1979 election campaign, 246; and appointment of MT’s first Cabinet, 261; as Home Secretary, 262, 419; and Iranian Embassy siege, 295–6; recommends Scarman to investigate Brixton riots, 325–6; discusses Cabinet reshuffle with MT, 330; and Carrington’s resignation over Falklands, 348; in War Cabinet for Falklands, 350; and MT’s rejection of Pym’s Falklands settlement terms, 364; and conduct of Falklands war, 368; and 1983 election campaign, 407; as Leader of Lords, 418–19; and Grenada affair, 428; in committee on miners’ strike, 442, 455; and MT’s Cabinet reshuffle (1985), 483; and Heseltine’s resignation over Westland, 494; meets Gorbachevs, 509; and preparations for 1987 election, 559; and MT’s fortunes in 1990 leadership election, 725

Whitmore, Clive, 275, 352, 362

Whittingdale, John, 719

Wicks, Nigel, 494

Wilberforce, Richard Orme Wilberforce, Baron, 133, 136

Wilkie, David, 454

Williams, Sir Herbert and Lady, 50

Williams, Miss (headmistress), 14

Williams, Shirley (
later
Baroness), 217, 236, 332

Williamsburg, Virginia: G7 meeting (1983), 408, 414–15

Willis, Norman, 455

Wilson, Harold, Baron: photographed in Downing Street as child, 7; elected leader of Labour Party, 83–4; economic expertise, 85; calls 1966 election, 89; attacks ‘Selsdon Man’, 102; confronts trade unions, 127; in February 1974 election, 146; MT challenges in Commons, 184; incomes policy, 188; resigns (1976), 191, 202; MT’s view of, 192; and referendum on Europe, 202

Windsor, Roger, 453

Winning, Norman, 55

Woerner, Manfred, 694

Wolff, Michael, 154

Wolfson, David, Baron, 181, 260, 275, 321, 332, 406–7, 410, 459

Wood, Richard, 80

Woodward, Rear Admiral (Sir) John (Sandy), 350, 368

Woolton, Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of, 47

World in Action
(TV programme), 223

World Bank, 337

World Climate Conference, Geneva (1990), 714

World War II: outbreak, 18, 22; preparations for, 20; moral significance, 25; conduct and progress of, 27, 32, 34; USA enters, 27

Worth, Squadron Leader, 36

Wyatt, Woodrow (
later
Baron), 189

Yakovlev, Alexander, 509, 673–4

Yardley, Professor, 197

Yarrow Shipbuilders, 132

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