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Also Known As	premier

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Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher speaks at a podium with microphones and an open folder at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

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Margaret Thatcher at the Tory Party Conference in Blackpool, Oct. 14, 1981. British Conservative politician and first woman to hold the office of Prime Minister of Great Britain (1979-90).

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