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Article: Eugenia Charles.(Eugenia Charles, prime minister of Dominica)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- September 17, 2005
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[c] DELLA ZUANA PASCAL/CORBIS SYGM
Dame Mary Eugenia Charles, prime minister of Dominica, died on September 6th, aged 86
THE press photographs did no justice to how Eugenia Charles felt as she stood beside Ronald Reagan, at the White House, in October 1983. They showed a rather grim and melancholy woman, in a white cravat and executive striped suit. Only a vestigial twinkle in Reagan's eye suggested the truth: that Miss Charles was having the time of her life. "Mr President," she told him afterwards in her lilting basso profundo, "you have big balls!"
She had just invited him to invade Grenada, and he had done so secretly, at once. That island, ...
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Article: Dame Eugenia Charles dies
The Weekly Gleaner;
September 15, 2005 ;
475 words
... ... Dominica: THE CARIBBEAN'S first female Prime Minister, Dominica's Dame Mary Eugenia Charles, died on Tuesday, September 6. Charles ... Caribbean's 'Iron Lady', Charles was Prime Minister of Dominica for three terms from July 21 ...
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