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Pearson Ends Long Career With Canada’s Nobel Peace Prize
Lester B. Pearson dies at 75 in Ottawa after a cancer battle. He served as prime minister from 1963 to 1968, won the Nobel Peace Prize for U.N. peacekeeping in the Middle East, and shaped welfare reforms and Canada’s flag. Funeral plans said to be announced, with burial in Wakefield near the prime ministers’ summer home.
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