Longtime Florida congressman Dante Fascell dies at 81
Dante Fascell, 81, a Florida Democrat who chaired the House Foreign Affairs Committee for a decade and served in Congress from 1954 to 1992, died of colon cancer at his Clearwater home. He championed human rights and aid to poor nations, and guided key environmental and marine sanctuary actions.
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House
Clearwater
Barbara Burris van Voorst
Fascell
Ms. van Voorst
Congress
Foreign Affairs Committee
Associated Press
Soviet Bloc
U.S
Rep
Lee Hamilton
D-Ind
United States
Europe
Hamilton
Florida Keys
Everglades
Jeanne-Marie
Robert Eisner Dies. Northwestern Economist Advocated Deficit Spending
Robert Eisner, 76, former American Economic Association president and Northwestern University professor, died Wednesday from complications of a bone marrow disorder. A vocal defender of active fiscal policy, Eisner urged deficit spending to reach full employment and was praised by peers including MIT economist Robert Solow. He led Northwestern's economics department, served as emeritus professor, and held fellowships with major societies. The obituary notes his books in the 1990s and his recognition by Omicron Delta Epsilon.
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New York
Theodore Newhouse
Newhouse
Newhouse Newspaper Group
Samuel I
Norman Newhouse
Conde Nast
Parade
American City Business Journals
America
National Advertising Bureau
New York City Publishers’ Association
New York City Opera
Jacob’s Pillow
Berkshires
Ted Shawn
Bayonne
Ted
Staten Island Advance
Long Island Press
Norman
S.l’s
The
Oregonian
Portland
Beatrice
Ted Newhouse
Caroline Herz
Manhattan
Roxbury
Conn
Estelle
Julie Lobel
Amy Berman
Adler
Jane Berman
Temple Emanuel
Evanston, Ill
Robert Eisner
American Economic Association
Northwestern University
Eisner
Mexican official Javier Garcia Paniagua dies at 61
Javier Garcia Paniagua, a former Mexican government official who aspired to the presidency in the 1980s, died of a heart attack at 61. He led the Institutional Revolutionary Party national directorate in 1981 and once headed the Federal Security Administration, later serving as labor minister and head of the national lottery. He retired to a ranch in Jalisco.
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Mexico City
Javier Garcia Paniagua
Mexico
Garcia Paniagua
Institutional Revolutionary Party
Marcelino Garcia Barragan
Jose Lopez Portillo
Federal Security Administration
Lopez Portillo
Miguel de la Madrid
National Lottery
Jalisco
Lonnie Pitchford Delta Blues Diddley Bow Master Dies at 43
Lonnie Pitchford a Clarkesdale Mississippi blues figure died November 8 from pneumonia complications at 43. A master of the one string diddley bow his Robert Johnson like performances and mentorship by Robert Junior Lockwood and Eugene Powell marked his career. He appeared in The Land Where Blues Began and Deep Blues and released All Around Man in 1994 after years at Smithsonian Folklife festivals.
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Clarksdale, Miss
Lonnie Pitchford
Pitchford
Robert Johnson
Johnson
Robert Junior Lockwood
Eugene Powell
Mississippi Sheiks
Washington
Smithsonian Institution
Benjamin B Talley Left mark on Alaska
Retired Gen Benjamin B Talley, 95, an Army Corps of Engineers engineer, supervised Elmendorf Air Force Base construction and prewar air fields in Alaska. He aided 1931 Nicaragua earthquake rescue, oversaw postquake Anchorage reconstruction after 1964, planned D-Day and Okinawa invasions, and helped design Brasilia offices as a civilian.
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Alaska
Benjamin B. Talley
Talley
Elmendorf Air Force Base
Anchorage
Army Corps of Engineers
Nicaragua
Army
Army Air Corps
Normandy
Okinawa
Korea
Brazil
Brasilia
Prison death of accountant in Kentucky sparks questions
In West Liberty Kentucky Charles Michael Kastelhan an accountant was stabbed to death in a cell with a convicted killer Alex Bennett. Authorities note the two shared a medium security unit despite Kastelhan’s drinking problems and Bennett’s murder record. Family coworkers question prison bunk assignments and safety.
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Eastern Kentucky
Charles Michael Kastelhan
Cincinnati
Alex Bennett
Bennett
Kastelhun
Louisville
Morgan County
Marling Potter
Potter
Kentucky
Kenneth Skeans
Kastelhan
Ron Hendrix
Ticona Lcc
Mike
State Department of Corrections
Michael Bradley
Dan Hittepole
Hittepole
Boone Circuit
Joseph Bamberger
Kastelban
Roederer Farm Center
la Grange
Skeans
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Boston
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Paris
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Seattle
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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Sue Edmonds
Joseph Olchefske
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Chicago
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Medina County
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