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<text id=89TT0861>
<title>
Mar. 27, 1989: Who Gets The Gong?
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Mar. 27, 1989 Is Anything Safe?
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
PEOPLE, Page 86
Who Gets The Gong?
</hdr><body>
<p>By Howard G. Chua-Eoan
</p>
<p> Caesar's wife must be above reproach. But what if Caesar is
the wife? In Pakistan tongues are wagging about Asif Ali
Zardari, husband of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. It appears
that senior Pakistani officials are annoyed by some of Zardari's
habits. They include sauntering uninvited into state functions,
his shirt half unbuttoned macho-fashion, and slumping into a
chair with a distant bored look. Protocol chiefs are speechless,
but the Prime Minister does not seem to mind her hubby's
behavior.
</p>
<p> In Britain, on the other hand, some influential Tory
politicians have been quietly working to arrange a special
honor for someone they regard as the unsung hero of 10 Downing
Street: Denis Thatcher, husband of Margaret. Why? For the past
ten years, they aver, he has cheerfully fulfilled the role of
consort, never seeking the limelight, bearing jokes and barbs
with aplomb and, above all, causing no embarrassment. Some, of
course, feel that, just for putting up with the Iron Lady, Denis
should be decorated or, as the British say, given a "gong."
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</body></article>
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