INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Madeleine Albright, who fled the Nazis as a child in her native Czechoslovakia during World War Two but rose to become the first female US
secretary of state and, in her later years 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
Albright, the 64th United States Secretary of State and the first woman to hold that position, passed away earlier today
The cause was cancer,& the family said on Twitter.Albright was United States ambassador to the United Nations from 1993 to 1997 and US
President Bill Clinton&s secretary of state from 1997 to 2001.Born Marie Jana Korbelova in Prague on May 15, 1937, her family fled in 1939
to London when Germany occupied Czechoslovakia
She attended school in Switzerland at age 10 and adopted the name Madeleine, Reuters reported.Albright attended Wellesley College in
Massachusetts, and got a doctorate from Columbia University
She became fluent or close to it in six languages including Czech, French, Polish and Russian as well as English.She was nominated to become
the first woman secretary of state, and confirmed unanimously in 1997
She was in the post until 2001.The post Madeleine Albright, former US secretary of state dies at 84 first appeared on Ariana News.
