Fong, First Asian-American Senator, Dies
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Hiram L. Fong, an immigrant's son who overcame poverty to become a millionaire businessman and the first Asian-American elected to the U.S. Senate, died Wednesday. He was 97.
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Shirley Chisholm, the first black US congresswoman and also the first woman to seek presidency, dies aged 80.
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Fernando Poe Jr., the action film star and presidential candidate who refused to concede the election in May, died early Tuesday after suffering a stroke.
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Maxime &quot;Max&quot; Faget, an intuitive engineer who became the chief architect of NASA&#39;s Mercury capsule and a key contributor to the design of three other manned spacecraft, has died.
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Rita Wong, the only Chinese nurse who cared for the famous "Flying Tigers" &#151; U.S. airmen who defended Chinese supply routes over the Himalayas during World War II &#151; has died, state media reported Thursday. She was 95.
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Vietnamese political activists spanning  the generations on Saturday bade farewell to onetime senior  Communist Party member turned dissident Hoang Minh Chinh, who  died in his late 80s earlier this month.
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Political pioneer Shirley Chisholm,  the first African American woman elected to Congress and a  champion of women's rights, died on Saturday in Florida,  congressional officials said. She was 80.
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Fernando Poe Jr., a movie actor who almost defeated Philippine President Gloria Arroyo in this year&#39;s elections, was brought to his final resting place by hundreds of thousands of fans and supporters.
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Leonard Lindquist, who helped NFL players form their first union and served as the first general counsel of the NFL Players Association, died at 92.
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Former Rep. Jennifer Dunn, R-Wash. who represented Seattle's conservative east-side suburbs for six terms in Congress, died Wednesday, her family said. She was 66.
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One of Vietnam's best-known dissidents, Hoang Minh Chinh, dies at the age of 85 after a long illness.
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Prominent Chinese law expert Xiao Weiyun, an opponent of full democracy who helped draft Hong Kong's mini-constitution, has died. He was 81.
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Veteran U.S. Sen.  Daniel Akaka, an 82-year-old Democrat from Hawaii, defeated  upstart challenger and fellow Democrat, U.S. Rep. Ed Case in  the state's primary election.
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BEIJING, June 2 -- Vice Premier Huang Ju, a reformer who helped guide China through a period of swift economic change, died in a Beijing hospital early Saturday after a long illness, the government announced. He was reported to be suffering from cancer and had largely disappeared from public view in...
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George Burger, a former political consultant who became vice president of the PGA Tour's new FedExCup competition, died of complications from bacterial spinal meningitis. He was 50.
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Pham Xuan An, a Vietnamese spy who worked   for Reuters and Time magazine in Saigon during the U.S. war in   Vietnam, died on Wednesday after a long illness, a government   official said. He was 78.
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Pioneering NASA engineer Maxime Faget, who designed the Project Mercury capsule that carried the first U.S. astronauts into space and worked on every subsequent manned spacecraft including the space shuttle, has died at the age of 83, NASA said on Sunday.