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Letters, Jun. 4, 1979

Thatcher Wins

To the Editors:

It is about time a major nation has realized the potential of a woman. Congratulations, Margaret Thatcher [May 14]!

Now, will the American Margaret Thatcher please stand up for 1980?

John H. Ferguson V Mount Airy, Md.

With Thatcher & Co. in office in Great Britain, may God have mercy upon her victims, Irish, Indians, Pakistanis and blacks.

Kenneth Tierney Yonkers, N. Y.

Your cover painting caught the lady's spirit, iron will and plain old-fashioned spunk! O, that we had a lady like her here to run circles around Jimmy Carter!

Mary...

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