Madeleine Albright, former U.S. secretary of state and feminist icon, dies at 84
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Reuters

By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Madeleine Albright, who fled the Nazis as a child in her native Czechoslovakia during World War Two but rose to become the first female U.S. secretary of state and, in her later years, a pop culture feminist icon, died on Wednesday at the age of 84, her family said. Albright was a tough-talking diplomat in an administration that hesitated to involve itself in the two biggest foreign policy crises of the 1990s – the genocides in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina. “We are heartbroken to announce that Dr. Madeleine K. Albright, the 64th U.S. Secretary of State and…

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