World Leaders Celebrate Thatcher as Champion of Democracy
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World leaders mourned former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who died today at the age of 87, with discordant criticism coming from the leader of Ireland’s Sinn Fein party.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who lived in communist East Germany during Thatcher’s government from 1979 until the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, hailed her for recognizing early on the potential of eastern Europe’s pro-democracy groundswell.