At approximately 3 a.m. on the morning of October 12th—a few minutes after she finished editing her speech—Thatcher heard a loud thud followed by a different sound. She immediately knew it was a bomb, and only learned later that the second noise was that of a falling chimney making its way through several floors. Thatcher was safe in her hotel sitting room but had narrowly escaped serious harm. “The glass had come in,” she later recalled, “which would have been very nasty had one been in the bathroom at that time.” Five people were killed and a few dozen injured, some very seriously, but none
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