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Mac Donald and Cabinet Member

party leadership: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward OTTAWA - Flora Mac Donald, who served as a senior cabinet member in two Conservative federal governments and made a run for the party leadership in 1976, died Sunday, according to Brandon Sun. She was 89. MacDonald, who served as a senior cabinet member in two Conservative federal governments and made a run for the party leadership in 1976, has died. MacDonald long-time executive assistant Margit Herrman says Mac Donald died in Ottawa _ the cause of death was not immediately available. She headed the department during the Iranian hostage crisis when Canadian diplomats gave shelter to six Americans who escaped capture when their embassy was overrun by student demonstrators. MacDonald was the first woman to hold the foreign affairs portfolio, handling the job in Joe Clark short-lived government in 1979 and early 1980. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.