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“It was a remarkable relationship. Margaret [Thatcher] and I had a love/hate relationship. She was always defending the South African regime and we had some terrible fights, including an enormous one in Canada.”

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Brian Mulroney, myself, [and] Rajiv Gandhi; I think that was the real core [of the Commonwealth ]. That was the engine room, I reckon.

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I had no time for Indira Gandhi. She was too much in the Russian camp for my liking.

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I can't speak with authority about Emeka Anyaoku. I just didn't know him that well.

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