Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 9, 1990 TAG: 9005090329
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: LONDON LENGTH: Medium
Quayle joined Thatcher at a ceremony marking the 100th birthday of Eisenhower, the World War II Allied commander who later became U.S. president.
The gathering was held on the 45th anniversary of the Allied victory in Europe. Quayle sat with Thatcher in the room where Britain's wartime leader Winston Churchill often met with Eisenhower. The vice president said Eisenhower's "vision has come true today," adding: "Now we must carry on with that victory."
"He foresaw the unification of Germany and foresaw that we should come to a stage when a divided Europe would be a thing of the past," Thatcher said of Eisenhower.
Also attending the ceremony was Eisenhower's granddaughter Susan Eisenhower, along with her Soviet husband, Roald Sagdeev, former head of the Space Research Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
On the future of the 16-nation North Atlantic Treaty Organization following the downfall of communist governments in Eastern Europe and the reforms in the Soviet Union, Quayle said, "NATO will accommodate itself to the changes."
Quayle arrived Monday night from Rome on the second leg of a European tour commemorating Eisenhower. He flew to Paris Tuesday night.
As Thatcher was waiting to greet Quayle at her 10 Downing St. residence on Tuesday, her husband Denis Thatcher, who had been on a golfing vacation in Florida, returned home after an overnight flight.
"I am waiting for the vice president. Would you like to meet him?" Thatcher asked her husband. Reporters and photographers were standing by.
"I need a shave," Denis Thatcher said and disappeared.
by CNB