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Birthday Bash: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher...

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Birthday Bash: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher turned 65 Saturday but has no intention of slowing down. She marked the milestone with a family celebration at the prime minister’s country residence. Members of her Conservative Party called for 10 more years of her leadership. “I am not immortal,” she said recently, “but I’ve got a lot left in me yet.” Thatcher became prime minister in 1979.

Sorry Charlie: Charles Keating, the recently incarcerated savings and loan exec, got a send-off from the Camp Beverly Hills clothing company: a T-shirt with his black-and-white prison mug shot and the words “So Long.” Said the firm in a news release: “The shirt may give some relief from this frustrating bungle.”

Dream Job: Talk show host Larry King says in People magazine that his fantasy interview would be with Jesus Christ: “I would ask him if he believed that he was born of virgin birth, because whatever the answer is changes or reinforces the world.” King, 56, said his toughest interviews were Demond Wilson, who starred in the TV series “Sanford and Son,” and actor Robert Mitchum. Wilson “was brash and obnoxious.” Mitchum “just gave me one-word answers,” said King.

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Aussie Has Heart: Australian media mogul Kerry Packer is donating $2 million to the ambulance service to buy heart revival machines like the one that saved his life when his heart stopped during a polo match. Packer, considered the richest Aussie, later made front-page headlines when he was involved in a scuffle with a newspaper photographer Saturday on the same polo grounds where he collapsed earlier in the week.

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