Evan Galbraith, Ambassador, Dies at 79
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Mr. Galbraith was a former ambassador to France and a Republican contender for governor of New York in 1994.
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A Northern Ireland-born heart expert whose pioneering techniques saved countless lives dies at the age of 88.
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Gordon Cooper, who as one of the original Mercury astronauts was a pioneer in human space exploration, has died. He was 77.
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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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Ruth Graham, who surrendered dreams of missionary work in Tibet to marry a suitor who became the world's most renowned evangelist, died Thursday. She was 87. Graham died at 5:05 p.m. at her home at Little Piney Cove, surrounded by her husband and all their five children, said a statement released by Larry Ross, Billy Graham's spokesman.
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Albert Warren, 86, who built a group of newsletters covering the telecommunications, broadcasting and consumer electronics industries into a small, influential empire, died after a stroke Nov. 26 at his home in Washington.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- The White House on Thursday paid tribute to United Nations envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello who was killed in the bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad one year ago.
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Late Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat and United Nations Mideast envoy Terje Roed-Larsen are seen during their meeting at Arafat&#39;s office in the West Bank city of Ramallah in this Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2001 file photo.
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Ruth Graham, who surrendered dreams of missionary work in Tibet to marry a suitor who became the world's most renowned evangelist, died Thursday. She was 87. Graham died at 5:05 p.m. at her home at Little Piney Cove, surrounded by her husband and all five of their children, said a statement released by Larry Ross, Billy Graham's spokesman.
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BRITAIN&#39;S ambassador to Iraq yesterday made a TV appeal for help in finding the body of murdered Ken Bigley. Edward Chaplin, speaking in Arabic, told of the &quot;agonising wait&quot; for the 62-year-old engineer&#39;s Liverpool family.
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Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, a political science professor whose support for Ronald Reagan conservatism catapulted her into the post of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has died at 80. She was the first woman to hold the post.
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Philip M. Kaiser, a former ambassador to Austria, Hungary and Senegal who during the Cuban Missile Crisis acted to deny the Soviet Union landing rights at airports where Russian planes might refuel, died Thursday. He was 93.
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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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The president of the United Arab Emirates, who helped forge a federation from seven Persian Gulf states and ruled it since its creation, has died, Abu Dhabi TV said.
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LOS ANGELES - Gordon Cooper, the last astronaut to take flight during NASA's pioneering Mercury program, has died. He was 77...
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Former U.S. Sen. Thomas Eagleton of  Missouri, running mate of Democratic presidential candidate  Sen. George McGovern in 1972, died on Sunday from heart  problems at age 77, a statement by his family said.
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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.