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Afghanistan

Great Britain · Government / Conservative Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1980Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1980

Peter Alexander Rupert Carrington Carrington, 6th17 January 1980

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

Supports boycott and diplomatic pressure after Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.

Margaret Hilda Thatcher17 January 1980

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

Cabinet backs an Olympic boycott response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Names involved

Margaret Hilda ThatcherPeter Alexander Rupert Carrington Carrington, 6th

Provenance

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