By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 10:36 a.m. ET
LONDON -- Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has suffered a series of small strokes and is retiring from the public lecture circuit, her office said Friday.
Thatcher, 76, canceled a speaking engagement at her doctor's instructions Tuesday night after falling ill that morning.
Her office said she had suffered a series of small strokes in recent months and that doctors had told her "to cut back her program at once and in particular to avoid the undue strains that public speaking places on her."
Thatcher accepted this advice "with great regret" and had canceled all speaking engagements, the statement said. She was resting at her home in London on Friday, her office said.
[http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Britain-Thatcher.html]
Carl
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