WORLD IN BRIEF : SOVIET UNION : Thatcher Gets Big Armenia Welcome
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British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was greeted by huge crowds when she arrived in the Armenian city of Leninakan to inspect reconstruction of earthquake damage and dedicate a school built with British aid. Almost all of the city’s 108,000 residents seemed to be on the streets, and the congestion forced Thatcher, winding up a four-day Soviet trip, to cancel a walking tour. The December, 1988, quake killed about 25,000 people.
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