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- GRAPEVINE, Page 13On the Outside, Looking In
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- Former Cabinet aides report Margaret Thatcher is suffering
- from depression brought on by withdrawal from power. While the
- ousted British Prime Minister seemed her old intrepid self on
- a visit to Washington two weeks ago, a number of close friends
- say she has decided to give up her seat in Parliament after
- holding it for 31 years. In the weeks after she lost the
- premiership, Thatcher took comfort in the fact that protege
- John Major succeeded her, and she hoped to exercise wide
- influence over post-gulf war policy. Major has largely backed
- away from Thatcherism, however, and has done nothing more than
- pay tribute to Thatcher "resoluteness and staunchness" in
- committing Britain to the anti-Saddam coalition. Heeding the
- obvious signal that Major does not need her counsel, Thatcher
- will almost certainly leave politics. "It's all over. It must
- be terrible to go out that way," notes a sympathetic former
- associate.
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