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- <text id=89TT0861>
- <title>
- Mar. 27, 1989: Who Gets The Gong?
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- <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."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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