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- LETTERS, Page 8Lessons from Thatcher
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- Michael Kinsley carefully catalogs all of Prime Minister
- Margaret Thatcher's faults and failures but goes on to admire her
- strong leadership (ESSAY, May 15). If her policies are
- shortsighted, harsh and self-defeating, as many think, then to have
- them linked to effective leadership is the worst possible fate for
- a nation.
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- Stephen Samuelson
- Hastings, England
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- Your essayist's poignant assertion that Thatcher "has taught
- the British people self-discipline" while Reagan and Bush have
- taught Americans self-indulgence is not quite accurate. Prime
- Ministers and Presidents are products of their electorates.
- Americans, and consequently our Government, have a credit-card
- mentality that did not originate with Reagan and Bush. U.S. voters
- have shown politicians what it takes to be elected.
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- Jim Donnelly
- Mahwah, N.J.
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- Mr. Kinsley felt he received poor service when he visited the
- Wales Travel Center in London. As manager of that facility, I can
- only apologize. However, it is quite unusual for a statistical
- sample of one to receive such global coverage. Our own more
- comprehensive statistics paint a totally different picture of
- satisfied customers, especially from the U.S. I do hope that on his
- arrival in Wales, Mr. Kinsley did find an "infinite lack of rush,"
- as this is precisely what American visitors to Wales are often
- looking for.
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- Ceri Thomas
- London