from Saturday

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PERSONAL

AND

CONFIDENTIAL

STRATEGY THE

The

main

-

events/issues

GROUP

NEXT

THIS

TWO

WEEK

WEEKS

are:

-

Your visits to France and West Russia (from Saturday) Kinnock meets Reagan (Friday) Budget Wind-up Debate (Monday)

-

State Visit of King Fahd, Saudi Arabia (from 30th anniversary, Treaty of Rome (Wednesday)

-

Chinese People's National Congress Wednesday) Labour Party NEC (Wednesday) Economic indicators: CBI monthly trends (Monday) Trade figures (Thursday)

-

Evaluation

Other

-

items

THIS

of

WEEK

Germany

Job

Start

Scheme

be

aware

of:

to

(Monday)

and

Tuesday)

- ?new Premier

(from

(Thursday)

-

SDP/Libs launch local government campaign (Monday) RSG report published (Monday); debated in Commons (Wednesday) Conference on AIDS predictions (Monday); care of patients (Wednesday) NUM special conference on financial crisis (Monday) Guinness Shareholders Association meets (Tuesday) Lloyd report on interceptions (Thursday)

-

Billericay Summertime

-

The

-

main

meets on Harvey Proctor begins (Saturday/Sunday)

issues

and

events

NEXT

Your talks with Gorbachev Treasury Select Committee (Monday March 30) TV

are:

and visit to Russia hear Chancellor on Budget

-

Granada

-

British Churches' Colloquium on Peace and Defence March 31) Commons Debate on Hanging (Tuesday or Wednesday)

-

White Paper on Higher Education UK reserves (Thursday) Grand National (Saturday April

Diaries and II.

for

BERNARD

INGHAM

22 March

this

re-enact

WEEK

(Saturday)

week

and

Westland

next

affair

week

(Monday)

(Thursday

AND

2)

4) are

attached

1987

PERSONAL

April

(Tuesday

CONFIDENTIAL

at

annexes

I

PERSONAL

& CONFIDENTIAL ANNEX THIS

MONDAY

, MARCH

I

WEEK

23

-

Prime Minister consults Mitterrand and Kohl SDP/Lib Alliance launches local government campaign

-

UN conference on peaceful uses (to April 10) RSG report 1987-88 published

-

EC Transport Council (John Moore EC Health Working Group Conference on AIDS predictions

-

OPCS

publish

report

on cancer

of nuclear

visits

energy,

Geneva

Zeebrugge)

incidence

near

nuclear

stations

-

?Further

-

MoD

funds

-

NUM special CBI monthly

decision

on

for Point School

of Ayr coal

of

conference on financial trends (March)

-

Cyclical

-

Manufacturers'

-

Pay negotiations: Prison officers Co mmons: Questions: Wales

-

Home

-

George

-

Kenneth Clarke leads to USA (all week)

British

American

-

BBC

Northern

Ireland

TUESDAY,

indicators

gasification crisis

(February)

and distributors'

stocks,

Debate: Budget wind up Secretary addresses William Hill Younger

TV

in Far

'Panorama' MARCH

plant

Music

on

East

(to

April

1986

lunch 1)

Parliamentary

24

-

EC Research Council (R&D progra mme) State visit, King of Saudi Arabia Prime Minister meets Yuri Orlov ?Kenneth Baker meets Liverpool City

-

Guinness

-

?Government response to Select Co mm ittee report on industry C & AG Report on MoD services hospitals Publication survey on bridge strengthening (D/Tp) ?Order for handover of Thamesmead to tenants

-

Group

Shareholders

Association

Council

meets

-

Association of District Councils DES launch video on craft design teaching career

-

Westminster Council debates Parliament Square plan Conservative Asian Women's Conference Co mmons: Questions: Defence; Prime Minister Debate: Consolidated Fund Bill Select Co mm ittee: Defence hears FCO and MoD officials on SDI Lords: Debate: Merchant shipping deficiency Lord Young at British Academy of Gastronomes award lunch David Mitchell visits London Regional Transport to

-

highlight

post-GLC

Housing Report and technology

coal

success

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as

PERSONAL

& CONFIDENTIAL

2.

WEDNESDAY

, MARCH

25

-

International

-

30th Anniversary, statement)

-

EC

Women's

Economic

and

Day

Treaty Social

of Rome

(Foreign

Committee

plenary

Secretary's session

(to

-

Wednesday) EC Conference on the Cultural Challenge, Florence Saturday) Chinese People's Congress opens (?new Premier)

-

Labour Party NEC TUC General Council

-

CBI conference on drugs (David Mellor) Gaming Board annual report

-

COSLA AIDS:

-

Co mmittee hears Blood Transfusion New construction orders (January) Co mmons: Questions: DTI

-

Lords:

-

Lord Young presents The Guardian Young Businessman award Kenneth Baker visits schools on Teesside and Durham Channel 4 - Soviet TV progra mme on the Russia Prime Minister will visit BBC Radio 4 on the Thatcher effect on wealth gap

-

-

THURSDAY

conference conference

(to Friday) on care of

Debate: Debate:

, MARCH

patients;

DHSS

(to

Select

Service

RSG UK relations

with

USA

and

USSR

26

-

Prime

Minister's

-

Kinnock

-

Publication of Lloyd Report on telephone tapping Faslane Peace Camp demo march MoD briefing for defence correspondents on arms control Evaluation of Job Start scheme Trade figures (February) New vehicle registrations (February)

-

Government

prison

flies

interview

to

response

medical

"Smash

Hits"

published

to

DHSS

Co mmittee

Select

report

on

service

-

BOTB

-

-

EC Commission decision on UK regional development programme Air services talks, Moscow (to Friday) Report on workplace industrial relations and technical change Scottish Liberal Conference (to Saturday)

-

Co

-

annual

with

USA

mmons:

report

Questions:

Debates:

Select

Treasury;

Bank

-

Richard Culture

Luce

Prime

Minister

Remaining Stages, Immigration Carriers Bill Adjournment - nurses' pay Committee: Treasury hears Governor

meets

Melina

on

Mercouri,

Greek

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Budget

& CONFIDENTIAL

Minister

of

PERSONAL

& CONFIDENTIAL

3.

-

Kenneth

-

John

FRIDAY,

Clarke

on

Lee speaks MARCH

ITV

'Union

on AIDS

World'

Green

Paper

27

-

Kinnock

-

Prince of Wales to Swaziland, Malawi 2) Rover Group extraordinary meeting

-

on

and workplace

meets

Reagan

-

Engineering

Pay negotiations: Further education teachers Co mmons: Debates: Private Members' Bills,

-

Remaining Bill Kenneth Baker visits BP Research John Moore visits Sussex Police

-

Norman

-

Foreign

-

Foreign Minister - dialogue on Hong Kong Home Secretary in Cornwall Nicholas Ridley visits West Midlands Lord Young opens hostel in Milton Keynes Welsh Ministers launch series of "good news" projects Norman Lamont at CBI conference on profit related pay BBC Radio 4 'Any Questions?' with Elizabeth Peacock; David Blunkett; David Alton and Roland Long, CBI

-

Fowler

opens

Secretary

, MARCH

and

orders

(to April

-

SATURDAY

sales

and Kenya

ward

visits

(December)

, MARCH

Prime

Su mmertime

Minister

begins

-

Lord

in

Hospital

Switzerland;

sees

Harvey

Chinese

Proctor

in Moscow LBC

Sunday

morning

'phone-in'

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Control

Sunbury

29

-

including

Aids

28

-

Young

of

Centre, HQ

at Grantham

Prime Minister leaves for Moscow The Boat Race Billericay constituency meets on Young Conservatives Impact Day

SUNDAY

Stages

& CONFIDENTIAL

PERSONAL

& CONFIDENTIAL ANNEX

NEXT MONDAY

, MARCH

II

WEEK

30

-

Prime Minister in Moscow (talks with Gorbachev) EC Agriculture Council - price proposals Princess of Wales opens body scanner, Stoke Mandeville Start of court action on commercial management on MoD dockyards

-

Co mmons:

-

Questions:

Energy

Debate: 2nd Reading Pilotage Bill Select Co mm ittee: Treasury - Chancellor on Budget Lords: Debate: New Zealand butter quota Kenneth Baker at educational establishments in Kent Home Secretary on 'Jimmy Young Progra mme' Lynda Chalker at London Conference on Nigeria Granada TV re-enact Westland affair

TUESDAY,

MARCH

-

Prime

Minister

-

EC Energy annual

31 in

Moscow

Council

-

NUJ

-

UN Association conference on drugs, London Caribbean conference, Belize (all week) British Churches colloquium on peace and defence, Pay negotiations: British Steel

-

DES:

-

Co mmons:

-

HMI

conference,

report

on

Blackpool

Sheffield

oxford

LEA

Questions:

Employment;

Debate:

Final

Stages

Mr Biffen Criminal

Justice

Bill

(?hanging) Select Co mm ittee: Health visits Amsterdam on drugs Lord Young at London Collaboration Project on tourism Chancellor opens NEDC Jubilee Conference - speech on company success Economic Secretary at Association of Charity Honorary Treasurers on payroll giving

WEDNESDAY

, APRIL

1

-

Pope visits Chile (to April 6) The Queen opens Clore Gallery for Turner

-

NEDC

-

First anniversary, abolition GLC/Metropolitan Counties New Health Education Authority created New prescription form for drug addicts Northern Ireland Public Order law operates; ?protests Co mmons: Questions: Environment

-

-

Lords:

-

Budget;

Collection,

CAP

Debate:

NHS

Kenneth Clarke lunch with Edwina Currie opens Phase

Michael Checkland, 1, Wigan Infirmary

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& CONFIDENTIAL

BBC

Tate

PERSONAL

& CONFIDENTIAL

2.

THURSDAY

, APRIL

2

-

?Prime Minister's statement UK reserves (March)

-

White

-

Scottish

Paper

on Higher

CND

leaflet

Education

Pay negotiations:

-

Commons:

-

Nicholas Ridley chairs Government finance

-

BBC

series

FRIDAY,

APRIL

-

-

electricity

Questions:

heart

visit

to

USSR

(Polys)

campaign

-

on

on

Home

supply

Office;

Consultative

disease

manuals

Prime

Minister

Council

prevention

on Local

begins

3

Konigswinter conference (to Saturday) Housing starts and completions (February) John Moore visits DVLC, Swansea Malcolm Rifkind in Aberdeen and Fraseburgh

Paul

Channon

addresses

British

Insurance

Brokers'

Association

-

Michael

Spicer

launches

new charter

service,

Manchester

Airport SATURDAY,

APRIL

4

-

Grand National England v. Scotland RU internationial Informal meeting EC Foreign Ministers,

-

Ex-Servicemen's

-

TUC Northern Regional Council AGM, Newcastle upon Home Secretary speech on inner cities Edwina Currie opens Phase 1, Derby City Hospital

SUNDAY,

APRIL

CND

march

to

RAF

Belgium

Alconbury

Tyne

5

Littlewoods Cup Final - Arsenal v. Liverpool EC Foreign Ministers' meeting Prime Minister of Pakistan visits UK (all week)

Kenneth Clarke on hope for the cities, Oxford conference UKIAS annual conference, Leeds (David Waddington) MONDAY -

, APRIL

6

Prime Minister sees Prime Pope visits Argentina (to

management

Minister of April 10)

-

Commercial

-

AEU national co mmittee conference, Credit business (February) UK reserves Anglo-German seminar on regulation

introduced

-

Commons: Questions: Transport Nicholas Ridley addresses Nature conference

PERSONAL

Pakistan

at Rosyth

and Devonport

Eastbourne

(Kenneth

Conservancy

& CONFIDENTIAL

Clarke)

Council

PERSONAL

AND

CONFIDENTIAL

3. TUESDAY,

-

-

APRIL

7

World Health Day EH 101 roll out at Westland, Yeovil (George Co mmons: Questions: DHSS; Prime Minister Lord Young opens Human Resource Development at

Industrial

conference

-

Kenneth Clarke employment law

-

Kenneth Baker addresses GCE board conference Nicholas Ridley at National Housebuilding Council lunch Foreign Secretary at Institute of Economic Affairs dinner John Moore in USA (to April 10)

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