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Died: March 16, 2021. IT was the moment, Charles Moore recollects in the first volume of his biography of Margaret Thatcher, when the SAS, previously relatively little known, became a household word for heroism. On May 5, 1980, teams from 22 SAS stormed the Iranian embassy in Princes Gate, in South Kensington, London, dramatically ending a siege that had begun on April 30 when six heavily-armed terrorists had taken 26 people hostage. The gunmen had demanded the release of 91 Arabs imprisoned in Khuzestan, a region in southern Iran for whose independence they claimed to be fighting. They threatened to blow up the embassy if their demands were not met by noon the following day. Police closed off the area and took over neighbouring buildings.
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Boris Johnson’s response to Covid crisis has been ‘Churchillian’, claims senior minister
Writing in The Telegraph, Penny Mordaunt says resilience shown across UK was the true British character reflected in a British government
19 May 2021 • 10:00pm
Boris Johnson s response to saving lives in the NHS at the peak of the Covid-19 crisis was reminiscent of Churchill’s response to the U-boat threat during the Second World War, a senior minister has said.
Penny Mordaunt, a Cabinet Office minister, compares Mr Johnson s response to that of the wartime leader in the way that he prioritised community assets over individual freedoms .
And she says the response of communities across the UK to the crisis was the true British character reflected in a British government , adding: We hadn t seen anything like that since the Falklands crisis.
This week in history: May 17-23
16 May 2021
Striking German workers in the 1990s.
On May 20-22, 1996, nearly two weeks of protest strikes against German Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s plans for $32 billion in cuts in the welfare state culminated in three days of mass action.
Involving over 100,000 public sector workers in the OTV union and 60,000 members of IG Metall, the strikes hit postal services, refuse collection and public transport in many major cities Cologne, Bonn, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Leverkusen, Bochum, Hanover, Leipzig, Weimar, Magdeburg and others. Hospital workers cut back services in Thuringia and Saxony. In Brandenburg, traffic on rivers and canals was disrupted by striking lock operators.