Britain: That Maggie Style

"l am what l am, and l am too old to change"

In Cardiff's ornate city hall, the smiling woman in the smart blue suit and two-strand pearl necklace was among friends. "We regard you," gushed the local chairman, "as the finest leader this country has had since the days of Winston Churchill." Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, 57, savored the roar of approval, whipped out a copy of the Labor Party manifesto and held it aloft. "A member of Labor's shadow cabinet described this as the 'longest suicide note ever penned,' " she...

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