
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, October 11, 1993                   TAG: 9310110050
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-7   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: LONDON                                LENGTH: Short

THATCHER MEMOIRS SKEWER EX-COLLEAGUES

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's long-awaited memoirs paint a less than flattering picture of her successor, John Major, but they level the harshest criticism against two former Cabinet ministers, excerpts published Sunday reveal.

The memoirs, serialized in the Sunday Times, prompted some of the strongest public language ever seen in the Conservative Party. The ministers skewered in the writings, Lord Geoffrey Howe and Lord Nigel Lawson, dismissed Thatcher on Sunday as an embittered woman seeking scapegoats for her mistakes.

- Los Angeles Times

by CNB