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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
-
- 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
-