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• James Lilley, at 81; former US ambassador to China

  
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  WASHINGTON - James R. Lilley, a longtime CIA operative and later the US ambassador to China during the time of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, has died. He was 81.
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• James Lilley, at 81; former US ambassador to China

  
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  WASHINGTON - James R. Lilley, a longtime CIA operative and later the US ambassador to China during the time of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, has died. He was 81.
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• William G. Salatich, at 87; former executive at Gillette

  
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  William G. Salatich rose from childhood poverty on the South Side of Chicago to lead Gillette North America and become vice chairman of the company’s board of directors during 32 years with the company.
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• William G. Salatich, at 87; former executive at Gillette

  
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  William G. Salatich rose from childhood poverty on the South Side of Chicago to lead Gillette North America and become vice chairman of the company’s board of directors during 32 years with the company.
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• Earl Cooley; smoke jumper helped pioneer risky firefighting technique

  
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  WASHINGTON - Earl Cooley, 98, who was one of the first two US Forest Service smoke jumpers to parachute into a forest fire and later was a spotter on the Mann Gulch fire that killed 13 firefighters, died Nov. 9 at his home in Missoula, Mont., of pneumonia.
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• Earl Cooley; smoke jumper helped pioneer risky firefighting technique

  
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  WASHINGTON - Earl Cooley, 98, who was one of the first two US Forest Service smoke jumpers to parachute into a forest fire and later was a spotter on the Mann Gulch fire that killed 13 firefighters, died Nov. 9 at his home in Missoula, Mont., of pneumonia.
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• Miriam Peters, 100, retired head of Burnham School

  
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  Her former students boarding at Mary A. Burnham School in Northampton are middle-aged women now, but Miriam Putnam Emerson Peters still referred to them as, “my girls,’’ and they remembered her as their mother in absentia.
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• Miriam Peters, 100, retired head of Burnham School

  
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  Her former students boarding at Mary A. Burnham School in Northampton are middle-aged women now, but Miriam Putnam Emerson Peters still referred to them as, “my girls,’’ and they remembered her as their mother in absentia.
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• Bruce King, at 85; served 3 terms as N.M. governor

  
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  SANTA FE - Bruce King, a folksy cattle rancher who served more time as governor than anyone else and became an institution in New Mexico politics, died yesterday. He was 85.
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• Bruce King, at 85; served 3 terms as N.M. governor

  
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  SANTA FE - Bruce King, a folksy cattle rancher who served more time as governor than anyone else and became an institution in New Mexico politics, died yesterday. He was 85.
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• David Lloyd, 75; won Emmy, kept sitcom viewers chuckling

  
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  LOS ANGELES - David Lloyd, an Emmy Award-winning television comedy writer who wrote the classic “Chuckles Bites the Dust’’ episode of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,’’ has died. He was 75.
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• David Lloyd, 75; won Emmy, kept sitcom viewers chuckling

  
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  LOS ANGELES - David Lloyd, an Emmy Award-winning television comedy writer who wrote the classic “Chuckles Bites the Dust’’ episode of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,’’ has died. He was 75.
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• Dr. William Ganz; cardiologist co-invented safer catheter; at 90

  
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  LOS ANGELES - Dr. William Ganz, who survived a Nazi labor camp to become an internationally recognized cardiologist, died Tuesday night of natural causes. He was 90.
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• Dr. William Ganz; cardiologist co-invented safer catheter; at 90

  
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  LOS ANGELES - Dr. William Ganz, who survived a Nazi labor camp to become an internationally recognized cardiologist, died Tuesday night of natural causes. He was 90.
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• William B. Ecker; led Cuba sorties

  
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  WASHINGTON - Retired US Navy Captain William B. Ecker, who led low-level sorties over Cuba in October 1962 and provided photographic evidence of Russian missile installations that almost led to a nuclear confrontation between the Soviets and the United States, died Nov. 5 at a hospital near his home in Punta Gorda, ...
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• William B. Ecker; led Cuba sorties

  
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  WASHINGTON - Retired US Navy Captain William B. Ecker, who led low-level sorties over Cuba in October 1962 and provided photographic evidence of Russian missile installations that almost led to a nuclear confrontation between the Soviets and the United States, died Nov. 5 at a hospital near his home in Punta Gorda, ...
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• Donald Harington, novelist of surrealism in the Ozarks

  
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  NEW YORK - Donald Harington, who created a surreal rural miniworld in more than a dozen novels set in the fictional Ozark hamlet of Stay More, Ark., died of complications of pneumonia Saturday in Springdale, Ark. He was 73. Mr. Harington, who never achieved popular success but attracted a devoted cult following, ...
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• Donald Harington, novelist of surrealism in the Ozarks

  
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  NEW YORK - Donald Harington, who created a surreal rural miniworld in more than a dozen novels set in the fictional Ozark hamlet of Stay More, Ark., died of complications of pneumonia Saturday in Springdale, Ark. He was 73. Mr. Harington, who never achieved popular success but attracted a devoted cult following, ...
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• Thomas O’Malley; helped to launch Glenn into orbit

  
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  NEW YORK - Thomas J. O’Malley, the aviation engineer who pushed the button that launched the rocket that carried John Glenn into orbit in 1962, and who five years later played a major role in restarting the Apollo moon program after a launching pad fire killed three astronauts, died Nov. 6 in Cocoa Beach, Fla. He ...
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• Thomas O’Malley; helped to launch Glenn into orbit

  
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  NEW YORK - Thomas J. O’Malley, the aviation engineer who pushed the button that launched the rocket that carried John Glenn into orbit in 1962, and who five years later played a major role in restarting the Apollo moon program after a launching pad fire killed three astronauts, died Nov. 6 in Cocoa Beach, Fla. He ...
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