On the World Stage: Margaret Thatcher and Mohammed Anwar al-Sadat
Margaret Thatcher, Great Britain’s conservative prime minister, and Egyptian president Mohammed Anwar al-Sadat met in London in August 1981, just two months before Sadat was assassinated for participating in the Egyptian-Israeli peace accord. Thatcher’s term in office was as memorable as Sadat’s: she went on to launch a new conservatism in politics and economics that would sweep the world in the 1980s and 1990s. (© Mary Evans Picture Library / Marx Memorial Library / The Image Works.)