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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John McWethy, a retired ABC News correspondent who had to flee the Pentagon after the 2001 attacks but continued reporting live, died Wednesday after a skiing accident. He was 61
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A U.S. official who was critically wounded in a shooting attack on an embassy vehicle in Khartoum on Tuesday has died, Al Arabiya television reported.
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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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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon paid tribute Friday to Kurt Waldheim for leading the U.N. during the Cold War with "perseverance," but the United States was less generous to a man whose Nazi-era past tarnished his legacy.
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Shirley Chisholm, the first black US congresswoman and also the first woman to seek presidency, dies aged 80.
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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 Wednesday, a family spokeswoman said. She was 94.
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10 December 2004 - One day after the United States Ambassador to the United Nations John Danforth gave his full backing to Secretary-General Kofi Annan - who had heard calls for his resignation from certain quarters in that country - a UN spokesman
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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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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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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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British actress Pat Kirkwood, a star of stage and screen in the 1940s and 1950s, dies at the age of 86.
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Some U.S. diplomats and officials who have been killed while working abroad:
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Nellie Connally, the former Texas first lady who was riding in President Kennedy's limousine when he was assassinated, has died, a family friend said Saturday. The 87-year-old was the last living person who had been part of that fateful Dallas drive.
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Ken Kennedy, a professor who founded the computer science department at Rice University in 1984 and eventually became one of the world's pioneers in parallel and distributed computing, died last week at 61. Computerworld's Gary Anthes remembers Kennedy.
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Veteran diplomat Yuli Vorontsov, who served the Soviet Union and Russia as ambassador to Afghanistan and the United States in a career spanning the Cold War and the Gulf War, has died at age 78, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
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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.