Margaret Thatcher Quotation - Can anyone help me out?

[Christopher Walken]

Are there any history buffs out there who know the date on which Margaret Thatcher was quoted as saying, "Russia is like Upper Volta with missiles/rockets" ?

I need it for a foreign policy class. Thanks for your help in advance.

 

[jammur21]

Hmm. I'm having trouble with this. So far I've seen articles that say that Clinton, German Chancellor Schmidt, Reagan, and Thatcher said this

however, quote
Editor, For the record, to correct Alexei Bayer, the phrase describing Russia was "Upper Volta with rockets," not "nuclear missiles," and it was coined not by Margaret Thatcher but by Xan Smiley, who was then the Daily Telegraph's Moscow correspondent and is now an editor at The Economist.

http://216.239.63.104/search?q=cachezS5RRFfRncJ:www.knowledgeplex.org/news/20628.html+++Upper+Volta++++with+rockets&hl=en&client=firefox-a

Gideon Lichfield The Economist Moscow

 

[jammur21]

my link skills suck, PMing you