WORLD IN BRIEF : SOVIET UNION : Thatcher Gets Big Armenia Welcome
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was greeted by huge crowds when she arrived in the Armenian city of Leninakan to inspect reconstruction of earthquake damage and dedicate a school built with British aid. Almost all of the city’s 108,000 residents seemed to be on the streets, and the congestion forced Thatcher, winding up a four-day Soviet trip, to cancel a walking tour. The December, 1988, quake killed about 25,000 people.
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