Mugabe's love of cricket and Thatcher's 70th: stories revealed in National Archives papers
by Caroline Davies and Owen Bowcott from on (#5C739)
Proposed MCC membership for Mugabe and Thatcher's birthday party plans among stories kept under wraps - until now
John Major vetoed a Foreign Office idea to offer honorary membership of the MCC to Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, saying it was a dodgy precedent", records released by the National Archives reveal. The FCO proposed the offer for Mugabe's 1994 state visit to the UK, stating he was reportedly keen on cricket".
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