| Mark sounds like he's a pretty bad boy. Mother must be so proud. |
 That idiot, Cliff Barnes Mark Thatcher, 51, the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, could be barred from the United States, where he hopes to rejoin his American wife and children, after last week's felony plea bargain in which he admitted paying for a helicopter to be used in an African coup. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the president of Equatorial Guinea, was the target of the coup attempt last year. The former Spanish colony, which gained independence in 1968, likely will seek Thatcher's extradition from wherever he goes.
| Teodoro would be worth getting rid of, but waiting a year or two would allow him to depart the scene naturally, since he's about 185 years old. |
 Thatcher's criminal record could prevent him from obtaining anything beyond a visitor's permit to the United States, the South African newspaper Rapport said. His plans to rejoin his American wife, Diane, and children in Texas have been delayed while his attorneys negotiate with U.S. authorities for a new visa, the Dallas Morning News reported. His old visa has expired and his criminal conviction could count against him, it said. The Dallas newspaper said Thatcher was waiting in Frankfurt, Germany, for word on the visa. An earlier report in the London Sunday Telegraph quoted a U.S. customs official as saying Thatcher would receive no special favors because of his family.
| It doesn't sound like the U.S. authorities are particularly impressed with him, either... |
Margaret Thatcher, who was a close friend of President Reagan's, paid her son's bail and has been staying with him in Cape Town. She did not accompany him to the courthouse. Thatcher's wife, the daughter of a wealthy Texas auto dealer, has been conspicuously absent. She made one fleeting trip to Cape Town since flying to Dallas with their two children shortly after her husband's arrest in August.
Maybe she doesn't like South Africa? Or is she spending time with J.R. now that Cliff Mark is preoccupied with other things? |
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