Former Chicago Tribune, UPI Chief Dies
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Maxwell McCrohon, who arrived in the United States as an aspiring foreign correspondent and went on to lead the Chicago Tribune and United Press International, has died. He was 76.
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Former Federal Reserve Governor Edward Gramlich, who served at the U.S. central bank from 1997 to 2005 and suffered from leukemia, died on Wednesday, a Washington policy group said.
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Pierre Salinger, 79, dies: The press secretary to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and foreign correspondent for ABC News dies in France.
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Author Susan Sontag, widely regarded as one of America's leading intellectuals, dies aged 71.
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Earl Ubell, 80, a print and broadcast medical and science journalist who covered the leading health and science breakthroughs of the post-war age in a lively and effective style, died May 30 at Actors Fund Home in Englewood, N.J. He had Parkinson's disease and dementia.
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Adm. William Crowe, former chairman of the U.S. Joints Chiefs of Staff, died on Thursday at Bethesda Naval Hospital at 82, the U.S. Navy said.
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Mormon leader Gordon B. Hinckley died Sunday night at age 97, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints announced.
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Retired Archbishop James Aloysius Hickey, leader of the Roman Catholic Church in the nation's capital for two decades, died Sunday. He was 84.
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Kurt Waldheim, former United Nations secretary-general and Austrian president, died on Thursday aged 88 after a short but severe illness, the Austrian presidency and a family spokesman said.
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Jeane Kirkpatrick, a key player in former President Ronald Reagan's conservative foreign policy as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has died, the American Enterprise Institute, where she was a senior fellow, said on Friday.
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SARASOTA, Florida  - Veteran journalist John W. "Pat" Heffernan, the only foreigner to have been president of the prestigious National Press Club in Washington, died on Tuesday after a brief illness, friends said. He was 96.
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Gordon B. Hinckley, 97, the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and an energetic grandson of pioneers who led his denomination during a period of great expansion in membership and facilities, died last night at his home in Salt Lake City, a church spokeswoman said.
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah  - Gordon B. Hinckley, the world leader of Mormons who presided over a period of intensive growth for the religion, died on Sunday at the age of 97, officials said.
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Kurt Waldheim, a former United Nations secretary-general and Austrian president whose reputation was tarnished by disclosures he had hidden his past in Nazi Germany's officer corps, died on Thursday aged 88.
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Former Indonesian President Suharto, a Cold War ally of the United States whose brutal military regime killed hundreds of thousands of left-wing political opponents, died Sunday. He was 86.
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Billy Reay, the winningest coach in the history of the Chicago Blackhawks, has died after a struggle with cancer. He was 86, the Arlington Heights, Ill.
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Gerald M. Boyd, a former managing editor of The New York Times who was forced to resign amid a reporter's plagiarizing scandal, has died. He was 56.