Article: Eugenia Charles.(Eugenia Charles, prime minister of Dominica)

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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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