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Former Dominica PM Eugenia Charles, 'Iron Lady of the Caribbean', dead at 86
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Sep 07, 2005 03:37pm |
| Category | Obituary |
| News Date | Sep 07, 2005 03:00pm |
| Description | ROSEAU, Dominica (AP) - Dame Eugenia Charles, a former prime minister who developed a reputation so tough that she was known as the "Iron Lady of the Caribbean," has died. She was 86.
Charles, founder of the Dominica Freedom party, died Tuesday at a hospital on the French Caribbean island of Martinique, where she had been taken for treatment of a broken hip, Dr. Bernard Yankey, a longtime associate said Wednesday on state-owned radio station DBS.
Charles served as prime minister from 1980-95 and became widely known when she stood beside then-president Ronald Reagan on the White House steps on Oct. 25, 1983, while he announced the invasion of Grenada. |
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