Ill-health keeps Gorbachev from Thatcher's funeral

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Mikhail Gorbachev will not attend late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's funeral in Britain next week because of health problems, a spokesman for the last leader of the Soviet Union said on Thursday. "He is not feeling very well," spokesman Vladimir Polyakov said by telephone. "He cannot make it," Polyakov said. "One must take into account his age." Gorbachev, 82, paid tribute to Thatcher in a statement after she died on Monday, calling her "a great politician and an exceptional person" who helped end the Cold War. ...

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Thatcher's dramatic 1990 fall: "Stabbed in the front"

(David Storey, now an editor in Washington, was Reuters political correspondent in London during the final months in power of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, whose death was announced on Monday. Here he recalls the drama of her sudden political demise in November 1990.) By David Storey (Reuters) - At some point in her 11-year rule, Margaret Thatcher adopted the royal prerogative of referring to herself in the plural - as when she announced the birth of a child to her son Mark in 1989. ...

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