Thatcher Bars ‘Extra Burden’ for Reagan

WASHINGTON — British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visited the White House Friday with other conservative world leaders but did not see President Reagan so as not to place an “extra burden” on his recovery from cancer surgery.

Thatcher and five other prime ministers posed with Vice President George Bush in the White House driveway after a 45-minute meeting on terrorism, part of the conservative leaders’ meetings this week in Washington.

Reagan and Thatcher have met more than a dozen times and have a warm personal friendship, but the prime minister left without seeing him about 20 minutes before he boarded his helicopter for a weekend trip to Camp David, Md.