Former U.N. ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick dies at 80
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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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Former first lady, Lady Bird Johnson, has died in Texas at the age of 94, less than two weeks after leaving hospital, a family spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
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Former Senator and Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, a courtly Texan who as the Democrats&#039; vice presidential nominee in 1988 famously told rival Dan Quayle he was &quot;no Jack Kennedy,&quot; died Tuesday. He was 85.
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John Danforth, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has resigned after less than six months in the job, it was disclosed on Thursday.
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Kurt Waldheim, a former United Nations chief 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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(Dennis, Massachussetts-AP) Oct. 7, 2004 - Boston Marathon legend Johnny Kelly has died at the age of 97. A family member says Kelley died quietly Wednesday night, shortly after moving into a nursing home near his Cape Cod home.
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Jeane Kirkpatrick, the first female ambassador to the UN and member of Ronald Reagan's cabinet dies.
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Charles William Maynes, editor of Foreign Policy magazine for 18 years and a former State Department official, died last weekend at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He was 68.
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President Bush's special envoy for Sudan, Andrew Natsios, resigned Friday and was replaced by a former U.S. diplomat to the United Nations amid questions about the administration's policies toward the vast African nation.
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Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady who championed conservation and worked tenaciously for the political career of her husband, former President Lyndon B. Johnson, died today, a family spokeswoman said.
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On the eve of a Security Council session in Kenya to galvanize talks to end the long-running civil conflict in southern Sudan, the top United Nations envoy for Africa&#39;s largest country, Jan Pronk, has discussed the world body&#39;s role with rebel leader John
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Rosemary Kennedy, younger sister of  President John F. Kennedy and the inspiration for the Special  Olympics, has died of natural causes at the age of 86, the  family announced on Saturday.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Scott Simon talks with Susan Rice, former Secretary of State for African Affairs during the Clinton administration, about the current peace talks among the members of the UN Security Council members in Kenya.
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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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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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US television evangelist Tammy Faye Messner has died aged 65 after a long battle with cancer.