Opinions Divided; The World's Reaction  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 407 no. 8831 (Apr. 2013), page 26.
Topik: Politics; International Relations-UK; History; Deaths; Manycountries

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Both loved and loathed at home, Margaret Thatcher stirred similarly polarised feelings abroad. They began across the Channel. In office she had a tricky time with French leaders, whatever their political stripe. Francois Mitterrand once said that she had the mouth of Marilyn Monroe and the eyes of Caligula. Jacques Chirac, a former president on the right, was caught at a European summit declaring: "What more does that housewife want from me? My balls on a plate?" Such ambivalence underpinned the French reaction to her death. America, by contrast, showed rare bipartisanship. Politicians of right and left praised her for her record at home and abroad but also--unusually--hailed her as a spine-stiffening friend who had, at vital moments, nudged America to be true to itself. Foreign leaders are rarely accorded such memorials. No such sentimentality coloured the reaction in China, though Mrs Thatcher is a hero to the ultra-liberals and is even viewed with some respect by mainstream academics linked to the government.

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