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Saturday: Mostly cloudy and cold. November 23, 1990 For home delivery call 222-6500 25 cents On Guard For 159 Years THANKSG1VING-1990 Great parade day Thatcher 1 resigns her premier psl 3-way fight looms when party chooses successor next week rm" V'. Children greet one of more than 400 By Matthew C. Vita Cox News Service LONDON Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher resigned Thursday, ending IIV2 years in power during which she rose from obscurity to reshape Britain and became one of the dominating figures on the world stage. Thatcher's departure leaves Britain embroiled in a divisive leadership battle at a time of international crisis, and deprives President George Bush of his most staunch ally in the fight to dislodge Iraqi troops from Kuwait.

Thatcher will remain prime minister until her Conservative Party votes Tuesday to choose a new leader. Her decision cleared the way for two of her senior cabinet ministers, John Major, the chancellor of the exchequer or treasury secretary, and Douglas Hurd, the foreign secretary, to announce their candidacies. They likely will face Michael Hesel-tine, the former defense secretary whose fierce challenge to Thatcher's rule led to her downfall, when 372 Conservative members of Parliament vote Tuesday. If none achieves a ma-. jority, a final vote would be held two See Thatcher, Page 2A papier-mache clown heads during Thursday's Thanksgiving pirade in iHiiii 150,000 in crowd don mind, but balbon balks at parade Leaders proud arrogance was strength and undoing 1 I 7 1 JJ I- 5" ST.CLA1R -V- W1HDS0B" L- tuj scale In miles Margaret Thatcher WHAFS HEXT Three men are front-runners in Tuesday's party election to be the next leader of Britain.

Brief profiles on each, Page 17A. During the '80s, Margaret Thatcher was regarded as the U.S. government's best foreign ally. George Bush says he expects a special relationship to continue. See Page 17 A.

contentious period of HVi years in which she dominated, her brusque and dismissive manner also created anger among hundreds of opponents. Many of them, not all, were men resentful that a woman should hold such power over them. "I make up my mind about people in the first 10 seconds, and I very rarely change it," said Thatcher, years before she became prime minister. Thatcher decided early in life that people's lives should be determined by individual gumption and private enterprise. She may have finally fallen because she no longer listened to arguments.

She was, as Hugo Young wrote in a 1989 biography, "confirmed in her luxuriant conviction that she had carried Britain, by the only honest policies available, toward the destiny her people desired and the world would strive to emulate." i It was the first time a balloon had escaped, said Jeff Montgomery, a spokesman for the parade. Chilly's absence wasn't noticed by the 150,000 or so people who cheered, clapped and sang as the other balloons, floats and marching bands covered the 2.5-mile route on Woodward in downtown Detroit. The crowd estimate, made by police, was far smaller than any in the previous five years. Estimates ranged from 400,000 in 1985 to 900,000 in 1988 and 1989. Detroit Police Officer John Leavens said their was no explanation for the shortfall.

The 18 balloons that stayed tied to See PARADE, Page 4A Chilly Willy, a 30-foot tall penguin balloon, blew away from Thursday's Michigan Thanksgiving Parade. It was later discovered taking a dip in Lake St. Clair. TONY SPINADetroit Free Press Detroit. More pictures, Page 1C.

Detroit Free Press President George Bush poses Thursday with soldiers during a stop in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He said: "We're not walking away until our mission is done, until the invader is out of Kuwait. And that may well be where you come in." if I SCOTT APPLEWHITE Associated Press 'J 4 f-iT' by Mike Williams Free Press Staff Writer A 30-foot tall penguin that skipped out of Detroit's annual Michigan Thanksgiving Parade by unexpectedly taking to the air early Thursday ended the day in more characteristic penguin fashion by taking a dip in Lake St. Clair. Chilly Willy, one of 19 huge parade balloons partially filled with helium, escaped into the sky three hours before the parade began when gusty winds pulled it loose from ground stakes.

Willy flew about 35 miles before coming down south of Walpole Island in Lake St. Clair. The Coast Guard recovered the wayward bird, it's top hat still bobbing in the waves. Bush talks turkey with troops, but -some grouse BY ELLEN WARREN Free Press Washington Staff In the Saudi Arabian Desert America's Persian Gulf troops saw their commander-in-chief at the front Thursday. But "in nere wnai nicy icaujr wanted to see: beer, their families, and a commitment to fight or pull out.

Now! PERSIAN GULF An assessment by Craig Whitney of the New York Times LONDON Margaret Thatcher had the politician's great gift of being able to persuade masses of people that her policies were not merely the only possible ones, but simple common sense that only a fool couldn't accept. This persuasive arrogance was her great strength for years but became her politically fatal weakness. Thatcher's opinions changed British society after decades of welfare-state politics she still dismisses as socialism. There was steel in her character, amply displayed in 1982 to the Argentine leaders who thought they could get away with seizing the Falkland Islands. She sent an armada and took the islands back.

But on the personal and petty level of domestic politics, over the long and 1 Ann Landers Bridge Classified Comics Crossword Puzzle Michigan Dateline Death Notices Editorials Feature Page Horoscope Jumble Lottery Movie Guide Names Faces News Summary Obituaries Sports Television The Way We Live Weather Weekend 2E 17F 11D 16F 16F 6C IOC 10A HE HE 10D 2A 2F 18F 2A IOC ID 13F IE 17F IF Volume 160, Number 200 1990, Detroit Free Press Italians, 1 from ex- ecutives at large busi- nesses to folks in I A fiU villages, declare that Peter Secchia of Grand Rapids is a sympathetic and hardworking ambassador. But Secchia is modest about his accomplishments. Story, Page 1C. i thanks to you," Bush told the men It was Hussein's second known worked his way through the chow line and women at the front, standing on visit to Kuwait since his forces seized was this: sandbags to get a glimpse of their the emirate on Aug. 2.

War might be hell. But sitting president. Marines swarmed around Presi- around in this miserable lunar land-Meanwhile, Iraqi President Sad- dent and Barbara Bush, asking for scape, doing nothing useful and just dam Hussein toured occupied Kuwait autographs, handshakes and taking trying to keep busy, is hellish, too. and southern Iraq and told his troops snapshots. The biggest cheer of the afternoon thatBaghdad did not want war but But what the marines, at a remote went up when president said some-would fight fiercely if it had to, state outpost some 75 miles from the Ku-television reported.

waiti border, were saying as Bush See BUSH, Page 4A President George Bush came to Saudi Arabia to give the troops a boost, to eat turkey roll, ham, shrimp Creole and sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving with U.S. forces and to try to boost support at home the desert mission. "This year, your country gives.