Ex-U.N. head Waldheim dies at 88
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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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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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Ulrich Muehe, the star of Oscar-winning German film The Lives of Others, dies at the age of 54.
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Bishop Ivo Lorscheiter, a prominent critic of Brazil's former military regime who also squared off with the Vatican over his progressive beliefs, died Monday, the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops said. He was 79.
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Richard Lehman, a CIA official who worked with every president from John F. Kennedy to George H.W. Bush and was credited with creating the president's daily intelligence briefing, has died. He was 83
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Jeane Kirkpatrick, a leading player in former President Ronald Reagan's conservative foreign policy as ambassador to the United Nations, has died at the age of 80.
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Suharto, the U.S. Cold War ally who led one of the 20th century's most brutal dictatorships over 32 years that saw up to a million political opponents killed, died Sunday. He was 86.
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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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Dr. Lee Jong-wook, who led the U.N. health agency&#039;s battles against SARS and bird flu, died Monday following surgery for a blood clot in the brain. He was 61.
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Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under former President Ronald Reagan, has died, the American Enterprise Institute, where she was a senior fellow, said on its Web site on Friday.
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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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The head of Greece's powerful Orthodox Church, Archbishop Christodoulos, who mended ties with the Vatican but clashed with the Greek state, died of cancer on Monday at the age of 69.
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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&#39;s army in the Balkans.
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The woman who died after falling from the U.N.'s Secretariat Building was a 44-year-old employee of the World Health Organization's International Computing Center, a U.N. spokeswoman said Monday.
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Former president Suharto, hailed as the father of development by some Indonesians during his 32 years in power and accused of corruption and rights abuses by others, died on Sunday after suffering multiple organ failure.
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Conductor Heinrich Hollreiser, whose musical career was linked to the postwar musical rebirth in Austria and Germany, has died at age 93, officials of the Austrian State Opera said Wednesday.
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Bobby Fischer, who became America's first and only world chess champion after defeating the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky at the height of the Cold War, has died at the age of 64.