Ex-U.N. head Waldheim dies at 88
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Kurt Waldheim, a former United Nations secretary-general and Austrian president who became tainted by revelations that he hid his past in Nazi Germany's officer corps, died on Thursday aged 88.
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Indonesia's former president Suharto, whose legacy of economic development was marred by graft and human rights abuses during his 32 years in power, died on Sunday, aged 86, after suffering multiple organ failure.
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Former first lady Claude Pompidou, the widow of President Georges Pompidou, died Tuesday in Paris, her foundation said. She was 94.
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The 192-nation General Assembly paid tribute on Friday to Kurt Waldheim, the fourth U.N. secretary-general, without mentioning his tarnished legacy as an officer in Nazi Germany's army in the Balkans.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Former dictator Augusto Pinochet, who ruled Chile from 1973-1990 and spent his old age fighting human rights, fraud and corruption charges, died on Sunday. He was 91.
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The 83-year-old former Prime Minister of India, Narasimha Rao, has died of cardiac failure in a New Delhi hospital. In 1991 Narasimha Rao became first outside the Nehru-Gandhi family India&#39;s prime minister.
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Former U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, who was elected Austrian president despite an international scandal about his secretive World War II military service for the Nazis, died Thursday, Austrian media reported. He was 88.
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Former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim dies of heart failure, Austrian media reports.
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Former dictator who held an iron grip on Indonesia for 32 years, dies of multiple organ failure
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Former President Kurt Waldheim was buried Saturday in the presence of Austrian dignitaries who declared he was unjustly smeared by allegations linking him to the Nazis.
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Author Susan Sontag, an almost lone  voice of intellectual opposition to U.S. policies after the  Sept. 11 attacks, died on Tuesday at age 71 at a New York  cancer hospital.
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Sir Edmund Hillary, who gained worldwide fame after he and guide Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, has died, according to New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark.
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Paul Nitze, one of the last leading U.S. statesmen of the Cold War period and architect of nuclear deterrence, has died at the age of 97.
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Edmund Hillary, the modest New Zealand beekeeper who shot to global fame as the first person to climb Mount Everest, died Friday at age 88.
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Controversial former world chess legend Bobby Fischer has died aged 64, Icelandic media report.
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A former leader who quietly pressed for Syria to quit Lebanon was killed Monday.
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Kurt Waldheim was also the former president of Austria whose hidden ties to Nazi organizations were exposed late in his career.