In 1977 she scored a joint interview with Egypt???s Anwar Al Sadat and Israel???s Menachem Begin which put her on the map, to be followed by such world leaders as Libya???s Muammar Gaddafi, the Shah of Iran, Russia???s Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin, Britain???s Margaret Thatcher, India???s Indira Gandhi and Cuba???s Fidel Castro, among many others.