POLITICAL
LEADERS, ACTIVISTS ROYALTY,CONGRESSMAN,
REPRESENTATIVES
Sheikh Omar Abdul-Rahman
Professor
of shari'a law (at the University of Jordan) before joining the jihad. A Jury
convicted Sheikh Rahman and nine other co-defendants of conspiring to wage a
terrorist war against the United States. They were found guilty of conspiring to
bomb the World Trade Center and other New York landmarks such as the United
Nations Federal Plaza and the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels, as well as plotting
to assassinate public figures. The man convicted in New York of being the
ultimate mastermind of these bomb plots was Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman, an
Egyptian Islamic religious leader who had been closely associated with the
Islamic fundamentalist unrest in Egypt.Sheikh Omar confounded prison
officials by refusing to take his medications for diabetes,
high blood pressure, and a heart condition. He had been accused of inciting the
assassination of President Anwar Sadat and repeatedly arrested and imprisoned by
the authorities for several years for allegedly inciting civil unrest. He was
eventually deported by Egypt to Sudan.
Don Aldredge
9-21-1999
Arizona is mourning the
death of Don Aldredge, the former Speaker of the state
House of
Representatives. The former Lake Havasu City Representative had
stepped down
from the post after having his leg amputated due to diabetes.
Details
surrounding
Aldredge's death are not yet available.
Clinton
Presba Anderson
(1895-1975) U.S. Senator
49-73,Democrat New Mexico Born on October 23, 1895, in
Centerville, Turner County South Dakota. He received his education at
Dakota Wesleyan University and the University of Michigan, and later moved to
New Mexico. He was an insurance executive, newspaperman and editor, and
operated two farms. He was a president of Rotary International. He served
as a member of the House of Representatives from January 3, 1941, to June 30,
1945. Anderson was Secretary of Agriculture from June 30, 1945, to May 10, 1948.
On January 3, 1949 he was sworn in as a U.S. Senator from New Mexico.
Yuri Andropov
1914-1984 Soviet
Premier.Born Jun 15,1914 at Nagutskaya, Stavropol region, son of
railway man. Dies: Feb 9,1984 Medals: Hero of Socialist Labor,Order of
Lenin (4),Order of the October Revolution,Order of Red Banner,Order of the
Workers Red Banner (3)
President Hafiz al-Assad
President of Syria born
1930. On 2/22/1971): nominated by the People's Assembly, confirmed by majority
plebiscite vote; 7 year term
Menachem Begin
prime minister of Israel
from 1977 to 1983. He was born in Brest-Litovsk, Poland on 16 August 1913, son
of Zeev-Dov and Hassia Begin. He was educated at the Mizrachi Hebrew School and
the Polish Gymnasium (High School). In 1931, he entered Warsaw University and
took his law degree in 1935. On June 20, 1977, Mr. Menachem Begin, head of
the Likud party - after having won the Knesset elections (17 May 1977) -
presented the new Government to the Knesset and became Prime Minister of Israel.
His publications include "White Nights" (describing his wartime
experience in Europe), "The Revolt", which has been translated into
several languages, and numerous articles. He is married to Aliza (nee
Arnold), and has a son and two daughters. Menachem Begin died in 1992.
Samuel Block
NEWS:April 22,2000
Samuel Block, a civil rights leader who helped register Southern blacks to
vote in the 1960s, died April 13. He was 60. Block, who was diabetic,
died in his apartment. The cause of death was not immediately known and
the family has requested
an autopsy, said Block's sister,
Margaret. As a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee, Block faced stiff opposition in his native Mississippi
when he tried to help blacks
register to vote. He was repeatedly beaten and jailed for his civil rights
work, yet refused to abandon the registration effort. He maintained
his support for civil rights causes throughout his life and planned to
attend a coordinating committee reunion at the time of his death.
Lucille B. Chapman
a five-time Menominee Indian tribal
chairwoman, died Sunday Oct 24, 1999 of diabetes.
She was 70. Chapman was a member of the old tribal council from before 1961,
when the tribe's federal trust status ended and the reservation became Menominee
County. Chapman was then elected to the Menominee County Board. After the tribe
regained its federal trust status in 1973, Chapman was elected to five one-year
terms as chair between 1980 and 1990. She was later a legislative secretary.
Chiang Chifu
Burma Opium Lord/Burmese
(MYANMAR) leader
Bettino Craxi
NEWS:October 26,1999
TUNIS
(Reuters) - Fugitive former Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi is in intensive
care in a Tunis hospital with heart problems and could face jail if he sought
treatment in Italy. ``He is still in intensive care in a Tunis hospital. We will
see how he is doing after a review today between a doctor from Italy and his
Tunisian doctors,'' Craxi's son Vittorio told Reuters in Tunis. Craxi is wanted
in Italy on corruption charges. His son said the 65-year-old had a heart attack
after severe pneumonia. In Rome, the office of Italian Prime Minister Massimo
D'Alema said the premier was not opposed to Craxi's return for medical
treatment. The office statement said, however, that it would be up to the
magistrature and not the government to rule on the judicial position of
Craxi. Italian doctors who visited him were quoted by Italian news agencies as
saying his condition was critical. After several appeals, Italy's highest court
in 1996 definitively convicted Craxi in one trial involving illegal financing of
political parties, the crime at the heart of corruption scandals of the early
1990s. In that case, he was sentenced to five years and six months in jail. A
conviction on corruption charges in another trial was overturned by the
high court. Craxi, once one of Italy's most powerful politicians and now in
self-imposed exile in the Tunisian resort of Hammamet, was rushed to hospital
late Sunday. The Socialist headed two successive governments from 1983 to 1987
before Italy's political old guard collapsed in a flood of corruption scandals
in the early 1990s. He carved up power with former prime ministers Giulio
Andreotti and Arnaldo Forlani of the Christian Democrats in a string of
center-left governments. In the 1980s, no government could be formed without the
blessing of the authoritarian Craxi, who ruled his party with an iron fist at
its height in the late 1980s. He has been living in Hammamet since 1994. Citing
health problems, including diabetes
and gangrene, he has refused to return to Italy. UPDATE::::January
12 ,2000 died today in Tunisia. Craxi, 65, once a major
political kingpin and one of Italy's longest-serving premiers in the
1980s, had been in poor health for years, suffering from complications
of diabetes.
Cyprian minister
President`s wife
(an indian lady) .She is a
Type-2.
Paddy Devlin
NEWS:August 15 ,1999
Socialist Paddy Devlin
Dies
BELFAST, Northern Ireland
(AP) - Paddy Devlin, a committed socialist who helped found
Northern Ireland's
largest Roman Catholic party, died Sunday. He was 74. Devlin died after a
lengthy hospitalization in Belfast, his family announced. He had been nearly
blind since the early 1990s and suffered a range of ailments because of severe diabetes.
A tireless campaigner against sectarianism and violence, Devlin participated in
Northern Ireland's first and only experiment in a joint Protestant-Catholic
government. As minister for health and human services, Devlin was the
second-highest-ranking Catholic in that 1974 administration. But the
power-sharing government soon collapsed under the combined weight of a
Protestant general strike and Irish Republican Army violence. The British
government resumed ``direct rule'' from London, an arrangement that continues
today.Last year's Good Friday peace accords call for a new cross-community
government but feuding between Northern Ireland's parties has prevented its
creation. Born on March 8, 1925, Devlin began political life as an idealistic
member of the IRA and served a three-year prison sentence starting in 1942 for
membership of the outlawed group. But Devlin renounced violence in prison, and
later became a fierce critic of the modern IRA campaign to destabilize Northern
Ireland. In 1970, Devlin co-founded the moderate Social Democratic and Labor
Party, which since has always won most votes from the province's Catholic
minority. But Devlin, a devout socialist, resigned from the party in 1977 in
protest that it was appealing too narrowly to Catholic interests at the expense
of attracting support from working-class Protestants. ``No one's talking to
(Protestants) about the price of a loaf of bread or how much it takes to pay the
rent,'' he said in a 1995 interview. ``No one has had any regard for the
majority of people here, the Protestants. ... We've scarcely recognized them.''
In 1981, Devlin was forced to abandon his home in his native Catholic west
Belfast after facing intimidation from IRA supporters, who were angered by his
criticism of the IRA prison hunger strike at the time. He retired from Ireland's
major labor union in 1985 and devoted himself to writing, culminating in his
1993 autobiography ``Straight Left,'' a reference to his favored punch in
boxing. ``Indeed, I would like to be remembered as a straight left,'' he wrote,
``straight in my dealings with everyone and left in my politics.'' Devlin is
survived by his wife, Theresa, two sons and three daughters. Funeral
arrangements were not announced.
Francois Duvalier
Leader of Haiti "Papa
Doc"
King Fahd
King, Saudi Arabia
James Farmer
Civil Rights Pioneer
Farmer Dies
FREDERICKSBURG, Va.
(AP) - James Farmer, who as head of the Congress of Racial Equality led the
Freedom Riders and helped end segregation in interstate buses in the
1960s, has died. He was 79. Farmer, who had been in ill health in recent years,
died Friday (July 9,1999) while hospitalized, said Ron Singleton, a
spokesman for Mary Washington College where Farmer was a professor. No further
details were available. The last of the Big Four civil rights leaders of the
1960s, Farmer was blind and had both legs amputated
because of complications of diabetes. ``James
Farmer helped to make America a better nation, and I was saddened to learn of
his death today,'' President Clinton said in a statement Friday night. Farmer
founded the Congress of Racial Equality in 1942 and in the following decades
shared the spotlight with Whitney Young, head of the National Urban League, and
NAACP leader Roy Wilkins. All were overshadowed by the Rev. Martin Luther King.
`He is simply irreplaceable,'' said Kweisi Mfume, president of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People. ``James Farmer leaves this
century as one of a few select men and women to be responsible for great
change.'' Farmer's most celebrated accomplishment as head of CORE was to lead
the Freedom Rides in 1961. It was a nonviolent effort to desegregate interstate
buses and terminals, but participants encountered violence. He helped recruit
CORE members James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, all of whom
were murdered in Mississippi during the Freedom Rides. Their slayings were the
subject to the 1988 movie ``Mississippi Burning.'' In the early 1960s, Farmer
often faced threats of violence himself. ``Anyone who said he wasn't afraid
during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination,'' he
said in a 1991 interview. Division within CORE over leadership and direction led
Farmer to resign in 1966. More recently, he has taught, served briefly in the
Nixon administration and made an unsuccessful bid for Congress. In January 1998,
President Clinton presented Farmer with a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the
nation's highest civilian honor. ``It's a vindication,'' Farmer said when the
award was announced. ``I certainly was ignored and forgotten.'' Farmer was born
in Texas and grew up in Mississippi. He entered Wiley College in Marshall,
Texas, in 1934 as a 14-year-old freshman. He graduated from theological school
at Howard University in 1941, and was a conscientious objector during World War
II. After college, he worked for the Fellowship of Reconciliation and started
contemplating how to change racist practices in America. He became a proponent
of Mohandas Gandhi's nonviolent methods, something King later espoused, and
founded CORE while living in Chicago. In the spring of 1942, Farmer tested
Gandhi's vision at the Jack Spratt Coffee Shop near the University of Chicago.
The manager there refused to serve Farmer but agreed to serve Farmer's friend, a
white man - until Farmer reminded the manager of the state's civil rights law.
``He asked me what I wanted. I ordered doughnuts, my friend ordered coffee,''
Farmer said. ``He told us the doughnuts would be a dollar apiece. When we left,
he charged the usual 5 cents per doughnut. We decided to pursue it because,
obviously, this gentleman had a problem regarding race.''Farmer and CORE
activists followed up with the nation's first sit-in: 26 people hogging the
counter and all the available booths. Jack Spratt's managers offered to serve
them in the basement.``I told them we were comfortable where we were. They
served us,'' Farmer said. Farmer moved to the Fredericksburg area in 1980 to
write his autobiography, ``Lay Bare the Heart.'' Despite his illnesses, Farmer
taught a course at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg on the history of
the civil rights movement.In a 1998 interview, Farmer admitted there had been
times over the years when he felt chafedby the lack of universal recognition for
his work. ``There've been moments of bitterness. And I simply shrug them
aside,'' Farmer said. ``Historians have a way of looking under the headlines,
below the headlines, and seeking truth. If they do that, I think I will be given
credit for seminal work in civil rights.'' Farmer is survived by two daughters,
Tami Gonzalez of Partlow and Abbey Levin of Darnestown, Md., and a
granddaughter.
Joe Mack Ford
State Representative
(District 28) of Gadsden Alabama is isted in ``fair'' condition at University
Hospital in Birmingham As of 6-24-1999. Ford's health took a serious downturn in
recent days... including infections in both legs, kidney failure, and the
discovery of lung disease. Ford suffers from advanced diabetes.He has been a
member of the legislature since 1974. He is married to Brenda Jane Ford and they
have three children. DOB: October 3, 1937 in Gadsden, Alabama. Education: B.S.
from Jacksonville State University, M.A. and EDS from the University of Alabama.
Work Experience: Director of Development, Gadsden State Community College
Retired Colonel, Alabama National Guards
Li Fuxiang
NEWS:May 12,2000
China Forex
Chief Dead, BEIJING (Reuters) - Li Fuxiang, the head of China's foreign exchange
regulatory body, died this week under mysterious circumstances, financial
sources said on Friday. `He's dead,'' said one reliable source of
the director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE).
``It's possibly related to something that happened before he took over at SAFE''
in October 1998, said the source, who spoke to Reuters on condition of
anonymity. Officials at Beijing No 304 Hospital, an elite military medical
facility, said Li had checked in for treatment for diabetes
on Monday. There was no official word on the cause of death but the
hospital's morgue confirmed it had handled a SAFE official who leapt to
his death on Wednesday. A morgue official declined to identify the man. A
consultant affiliated with SAFE said the agency had summoned staff to a meeting
on Thursday to explain Li's death, but SAFE's spokesman declined to comment on
the case. There was no immediate confirmation of reports in the Hong
Kong media and rumors in the Shanghai foreign exchange market and on
Internet chat sites that it was Li, 47, who had committed suicide by
leaping from an upper story of the hospital. The reports had no effect on
the tightly-managed Chinese yuan. Asked about the reports Li had
committed suicide, China's State Council Information Office, which speaks
for the cabinet, said it was still seeking confirmation. Hong Kong's Ming
Pao and the Hong Kong Economic Times newspapers said Li had leapt
from the seventh floor of a hospital in Beijing on Wednesday night. The Ming
Pao quoted unidentified sources and the Economic Times gave no sources for its
report. The independent Ming Pao said rumors were circulating in Chinese
financial markets that Li's suicide might be related to ''inappropriate
activities'' at his office or stress at work. It said there was
speculation Li was being investigated for ''economic activities,'' but
gave no further details. Hong Kong's Sing Tao Daily said Li had been
posted to SAFE in 1996 and had won the favor of Premier Zhu Rongji for his grasp
of forex issues. Li took over as SAFE director from Wu Xiaoling shortly
after she had launched a nationwide crackdown on foreign exchange fraud
designed to stem capital flight and ease downward pressure on the Chinese
yuan during the Asian economic crisis. A fluent English speaker, Li had worked
for the Bank of China, the country's main foreign exchange bank, in Singapore
early in his career and later headed the bank's New York branch.
Virginia Ginter
Mother of Newt Gingrich
(U.S. Speaker of the House)
Mikhail Sergeyevich
Gorbachev
Soviet Premier
Ismet
Inonu
2nd President of Turkish
Republic Insulin-dependent
Janet Jagan
Guyana's President
NEWS:Saturday July 24 7:31
PM ET
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - Guyana's president has been discharged from an Ohio
hospital after tests for a heart condition, a spokesman said Saturday. President
Janet Jagan, 78, left Akron City Hospital on Friday and is resting at the home
of a Guyanese-born physician near Akron before returning to Guyana, said
Information Minister Moses Nagamootoo. Nagamootoo released few details of
Jagan's condition but downplayed speculation in Guyana that she won't be able to
serve out her term, which ends in 2001. `I have no reason to believe otherwise,
and the medical reports I have received from credible medical people would
indicate that she doesn't immediately need any surgical intervention,'' he said.
Before heading to Ohio on Wednesday, Jagan was hospitalized at Guyana's St.
Joseph's Mercy Hospital for treatment of angina, exhaustion and diabetes.
Jagan was elected president in 1997, succeeding her late husband, Cheddi Jagan,
who died earlier that year. She is a Chicago native but has been a Guyana
resident since 1943.
Shin Kanemaru
Japanese Liberal
Democratic Party Kingmaker
Joseph Kolter
Pennsylvania U.S.
Representative
Nikita Krushchev
Soviet Premier
Fiorello LaGuardia
Mayor, New York City
James Lloyd
California Congressman
Ludwig XIV-
1638-1715) Ludwig
XIV called "King of sun" compared himself
with the characteristics
of the sun.
Gregory Luna
NEWS: November 8,1999
Veteran Lawmaker Mourned -
(SAN ANTONIO) -- Tributes are pouring in for retired State
Senator
Gregory Luna, who died over the weekend of complications
from diabetes. Luna
resigned from the
legislature in August after both his legs were amputated. He was a former
police officer who
helped found the influential Mexican American Legal Defense and
Educational Fund.
While in the legislature, he wrote much of the state's current education law.
Molly Malcolm, head
of the state Democratic Party, called Luna "one of the truly great leaders
of Texas." She
says Texas schoolchildren have lost a great friend. A memorial service is set
for tomorrow in San
Antonio.
NEWS:Sept.24,1999
State Senator , who
led the fight to reform school finance in Texas, resigned today (9-24-1999)due
to health problems. The San Antonio Democrat has been suffering from diabetes.
He recently had both legs amputated. Luna was first elected to the State House
in 1984, and he moved to the Senate in 1992. He is a true giant in
Mexican-American politics. Back in the 70's, Luna helped found the Mexican
American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Lieutenant Governor Rick Perry
called Luna ``a powerful advocate for causes like better schools and greater
hope and opportunity for all Texans.'' Governor Bush will call a special
election to decide a successor.
Gail McGee
(1915-1992). U.S. Senator
from Wyoming, 1959-77.
Winnie Mandela
South African
Anti-Apartheid Leader
Freddie Meeks
NEWS:LOS ANGELES (AP)
- For a half-century, Freddie Meeks told no one he was a mutineer. Not his
children. Not his employers. But on Thursday, it seemed as if the whole
world dropped by his tidy
stucco home to congratulate the frail 80-year-old man and ask how it felt
to receive a presidential pardon of his conviction in the nation's largest
mutiny trial. It felt just fine. `I know God was keeping me around
here for something to see,'' Meeks said. His pardon was one of 37 granted by
President Clinton as a Christmastime gesture. The others involved those
convicted of drug offenses, tax evasion, stealing mail and fraud. Meeks,
who had formally sought the pardon this year, said he ``knew we had a good
president
and I figured
he would do the right thing.'' He was among 50 black sailors
court-martialed, found guilty of mutiny and sentenced to prison and hard
labor for refusing to load live ammunition after a 1944 explosion at the Port
Chicago naval facility near San Francisco killed 320 people. The
subsequent standoff between black sailors and white officers inspired the TV
movie ``Mutiny.'' Lawmakers, veterans and the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People argued the sailors were victims of racial
prejudice. The Navy agreed with them in a 1994 review of the case, though
it did not overturn their convictions. The pardon had no official effect
on the records of the other convicted seamen. The only other known living
survivor of the case, Jules Crittenden of Montgomery, Ala., has not
sought a pardon. He told The Associated Press in August he was more interested
in seeing each family of the victims get full benefits from the military.
Meeks was among hundreds of untrained black sailors who loaded ammunition aboard
transport ships at the naval base during World War II. The work was
frightening, he recalled, with bombs banging together as they slid into the
hatch on a homemade runway. He asked a lieutenant if the bombs were live.
``He said, `Oh no, they're not live, boy. Don't worry about it. They're not
gonna explode,''Meeks said. ``But the next day, the ship was blown to hell and
back.'' Two-thirds of those killed on July 17, 1944, were black sailors.
The blast also wounded 390 people and destroyed two transport ships. It
was the worst domestic loss of life during the war. Clinton noted Meeks
had participated in the ``extraordinarily difficult job of picking up human
remains'' following the blast. ``It wasn't bodies,'' Meeks said.
``It was pieces. You couldn't tell white from black. They just shoveled 'em
up.'' White officers were given 30-day leaves after the blast. The black
sailors were ordered back to work. Meeks and others refused.
``They told us, `You know you could be shot''' he said. ``But we made up our
mind - you go back, you might be blown to pieces. So we didn't go
back.'' The arrested sailors were held on a barge until they were tried
and convicted for mutiny. ``They felt because we was black that we
supposed to did the dirty work and say nothing,'' he added. ``But thank
God that we spoke up and we stood up for our rights.'' Meeks served less
than two years of a 15-year sentence. He later was assigned to a ship and
finished his term with an honorable discharge in 1946 that allowed him to retain
military benefits. ``I'm not bitter because it's something happened so
long ago, you just outlive it, that's all,'' he said of his conviction. He
later worked at a warehouse and as a security guard for Los Angeles County and
CBS. He never told his bosses about the jail term. ``I kept my mouth
shut, because I had to have a job,'' he said. ``They'd have said, `We can't
use you because you have went against the country ... you rebelled.'''
Meeks and his wife also never told their children, Cheryl, Brian and Daryl, who
now is a Los Angeles County sheriff's sergeant. They only found out as
adults. Meeks said he didn't want schoolmates to taunt them for having a
``jailbird'' for a father. ``It hurt me on the inside to have to keep that
away from my kids,'' he said. Meeks is in failing health. He has a pacemaker, an
eye patch, diabetes
and suffered two recent strokes. Of the pardon, he said ``it won't do very
much for me, but it (will) do things for other young blacks just going
into the service.
William R. Melton
a World War II pilot
and member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, died Sept. 2 of complication from
heart disease and diabetes.
He was 78. During World War II, he enlisted as a pilot in what was then
the Army Air Corps and was assigned to the all-black unit. As a
fighter pilot, Melton flew more than 108 missions over North Africa and Europe.
When he completed his duty, Melton remained active with the Tuskegee Airmen
throughout his life. He returned to Tuskegee to serve as a flying
instructor, served as public relations officer, historian and assistant to
several of its national presidents.
Oscar Mpetha
1909 - 1994 South African
Labor Leader
Gamal Abdel-Nasser
(1918-1970)- World Leader
of Egypt
George Nethercutt
(R-WA). US
Representative ....His daughter has type one diabetes and he has been the
most outspoken advocate for diabetes on capitol hill. Sent
in By Corey Ladick
James Leander Nichols
Human Rights Activist.
NEWS:7/15/96
RANGOON, Burma (Reuter) - A commentary in an official Burmese newspaper said
Monday an honorary consul for several European nations who died in jail
last month was an unimportant crook who met his due fate.
Nichols, 65, suffered from diabetes,
hypertension and heart problems, yet he was imprisoned, reportedly without
medical treatment, for two months
prior to his death.James
Leander (Leo) Nichols, an unaccredited representative for Norway, Denmark,
Finland and Switzerland, died on June 22,1996 . Differing accounts say he died
of a heart attack or stroke Nichols, godfather and close friend of democracy
leader Aung San Suu Kyi, was arrested in April and in May was sentenced to three
years in jail for operating home telephones and fax machines without
permission.... although human rights groups believe his arrest was
prompted by his close links with the NLD.
Gen. Augusto Pinochet
NEWS:Thursday July 29 7:06
PM ET
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP)
- Former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who is fighting a Spanish
extradition effort, suffers from stress and other serious medical problems that
leave him incapable of enduring prolonged captivity or a long trial, local media
reported Thursday. Citing a report by the Chilean foreign ministry, daily La
Tercera said the 83-year-old Pinochet is suffering from emotional strain which
is also hampering his recovery from back surgery and worsening his diabetes.
Pinochet is under house arrest near London. Chilean officials have repeatedly
sought Pinochet's release through a series of judicial and political channels,
claiming foreign judges have no authority over the ailing general. Pinochet was
arrested last October on a Spanish warrant alleging he ordered his
securityservices to commit gross human rights abuses during his 17-year regime.
His extradition trial is expected to begin Sept. 27.
Jean Pouliot
9-22-1999
Police Chief of Fairfield
Maine
The town of
Fairfield Maine is reportedly trying to work out a severance agreement
with embattled Police Chief Jean Pouliot. "The Bangor Daily News"
reports that the Town Council may be voting on some sort of severance package
when it meets in closed session this evening in exchange for Pouliot's
resignation from the force after ten years. Pouliot was suspended in
August for purchasing 250-dollars worth of personal items with the town's
credit card, and has remained on medical leave for diabetes.
A special audit was ordered in an attempt to locate the
33-thousand-dollars Pouliot's department spent over its budget.
Kukrit
Pramoj
ACTOR:PRIME MINISTER OF
THAILAN Date of birth (location) 20 April 1911 Date of death (details)
9 October 1995, Bangkok, Thailand. (heart disease and diabetes complications )
Kukrit Pramoj was the son of a Thai prince. He attended Oxford University in
England and became active in Thai politics after World War II. Pramoj worked as
a bournalist and banker while military juntas ruled Thailand over the next
several decades. He starred in the 1963 film "The Ugly American" as
the prime minister of a fictional Asian country. A decade later he became prime
minister of Thailand, serving in that office from March of 1975 until April of
1976. Pramoj's brother, Seni, also held the position of prime minister
several times in the 1970s. Kukrit remained a leading figure in Thai politics
until his death in October of 1995.
SOURCE:IMDB
Charles Elson Buddy
Roemer
Governor, Louisiana
Anwar
Sadat
Egyptian Leader
Richard Schweiker
Statesman
Joe Serna Jr.
NEWS:November 7,1999
Sacramento Mayor Joe
Serna Jr., a former college professor who spent nearly two decades as an
elected city official, died Sunday of kidney cancer and complications
arising from diabetes. He was 60. Serna had
briefly slipped into a diabetic coma Wednesday
and returned home from the hospital Friday. He passed away at 3:47 a.m.
surrounded by his family, said Chuck Dalldorf, a spokesman for the mayor.
President Clinton issued a statement saying he and first lady Hillary Rodham
Clinton were ``deeply saddened'' to learn of Serna's death and that their
thoughts and prayers were with Serna's family. ``Joe was an
extraordinary public servant, educator, father, husband and friend,'' Clinton
said. ``He was a great leader of Sacramento and a source of inspiration to
the Hispanic community and all Americans.'' Serna, who was born in
Stockton and raised in Lodi, was elected in 1981 to the Sacramento City
Council, where he served 11 years. He was elected mayor in 1992, and re-elected
in 1996. ``Joe was a true giant in the Latino community, and a
visionary leader for all of Sacramento,'' said Lt. Gov. Cruz
Bustamante in a statement. A follower of the late farm labor leader Cesar
Chavez, Serna served on the Sacramento-area support committee for the
United Farm Workers and on an array of municipal bodies. Since he died
with more than a year left in his term, a special election will be held next
year to determine a successor.
Norodam Sihanouk
NEWS: October 28,1999
Born Oct. 31, 1922,
Sihanouk ascended the Cambodian throne in 1941 and is credited with
leading the
Southeast Asian country to independence from France in 1953.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP)
- King Norodom Sihanouk has complained of poor health
ahead of his
77th birthday, darkening Cambodia's preparations for the national holiday. The
revered monarch told his subjects in a Wednesday night television broadcast that
chronic weakness has forced him to drastically scale back public appearances.
``My subjects, you must understand that I am considerably weak. That is why I
can rarely see you,'' Sihanouk said. ``Now my life enters a period that is
similar to the setting of the sun.'' The king's cabinet said today that Sihanouk
will not be making any public appearances on his birthday Sunday and will spend
the day at a Buddhist ceremony within the palace. He will not issue traditional
birthday messages - which often include sharp commentary on domestic and
international politics - cabinet member Kek Sysoda said. Sihanouk has suffered
from a variety of ailments over the years, including cataracts,
diabetes and hypertension, and often makes extended
stays in Beijing for treatment. He was diagnosed with colon cancer in 1993, but
it has since gone into remission. The king is head of state but wields little
real power. He is nonetheless greatly revered by his people and has repeatedly
been a stabilizing force in Cambodia's often-violent political arena.
Cevat Soysal
NEWS:Tuesday July 27 4:43
PM ET
Soysal is a
high-ranking official of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK
ISTANBUL, Turkey
(AP) - Turkish interrogators tortured a Kurdish rebel captured earlier this
month, injecting him with drugs and spraying him with freezing water, the
rebel's lawyer said Tuesday. Cevat Soysal, identified by Turkey as a
high-ranking official of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, was first seen in
public Friday when he was brought to court. He appeared pale and weak and was
supported by two security officers as he walked. Lawyer Ahmet Avsar, who met
Soysal on Monday in an Ankara prison, said his client had been repeatedly
tortured. `He told me that the first two days of his detention they didn't even
ask him any questions. They just tortured him,'' Avsar told The Associated
Press. Soysal said he had been stripped and sprayed with freezing water, hanged
from under his armpits, and injected with drugs, as well as blindfolded for
days, Avsar said. Officials at the Interior Ministry and at Ankara's police
headquarters refused to comment on the allegations. Authorities have said that
Soysal suffers from hepatitis and diabetes and
that his weak condition was due to those illnesses. Avsar said Soysal had
undergone treatment in Europe and was in good health before his capture July 16
in Moldova. The lawyer said he planned to file suit against authorities after
the results of a medical report are released, possibly next week. Human rights
groups have frequently accused Turkey of using torture to extract information
from Kurdish rebels in custody. Soysal was charged Friday with forming an armed
gang against the state. He faces a minimum of 221/2 years in prison if
convicted.
Robert Strauss
New Dealer on President
Jimmy Carter's WhiteHouse Staff
Nguyen Ngoc Tan
NEWS:May 11,2000 Vietnamese
Journalist Nguyen Ngoc Tan Is Freed
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - A Vietnamese
journalist who spent five years in jail for advocating human rights was
released as part of a presidential amnesty for more than 12,000 inmates, a
Paris-based media advocacy group said Thursday. Nguyen Ngoc Tan, 80, who
went by his pen name Pham Thai, had been an activist in the Movement for
the Unity of the People and Construction of Democracy, Reporters Without
Borders said in a statement. He had pushed for press freedoms as a member
of the underground group that advocated human rights and democracy in
Vietnam. Tan was arrested in 1995 and sentenced to 11 years in prison
for ``conspiring against the socialist power.'' He was released April 30
from Ham Tan labor camp, on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City.
Reporters Without Borders welcomed Tan's release, saying it ``regrets it
did not come sooner.'' Tan, who is suffering from diabetes,
rheumatism and lung infections, has returned to Ho Chi Minh City. His
colleague, Nguyen Dinh Huy, remains as the last journalist jailed in the
country, the group said. Last month, Vietnam pardoned 12,264 inmates in
its largest amnesty ever to mark the 25th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam
War.
Vietnam repeatedly has said its prisoners
include only lawbreakers, and that no one is in jail for dissident views. Human
rights groups have estimated, though, that Vietnam
holds at least 40 prisoners of
conscience.
Kakuei Tanaka
Japanese Political Leader
Strom Thurmond daughter
Julie
has juvenile
diabetes;Strom Thurmond is a U.S. Senator, Republican from South Carolina
Johnnie Tilmon-Black
Welfare Rights Advocate
Josip Broz TITO
World
Leader,Yugoslavia statesman
Leonard Frederick Wade
Bermuda Opposition
Leader,he was death due to diabetes, kidney and heart problems DIED:Aug.
14(1996)
Arnold W. Webster
NEWS:August 12,1999
Former N.J. Mayor
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A former mayor was sentenced to six months of house arrest
for illegally receiving $20,833 in salary from a previous job after he took
office. Arnold W. Webster, 68, could have faced up to 16 months in prison. A
federal judge granted a request for no incarceration from Webster's lawyer, who
noted that the former mayor is blind and suffers from a heart condition and diabetes.
Instead, Webster was sentenced to house arrest and
three years of probation. U.S. District Judge Alfred Wolin also ordered him to
repay all the money and assessed a $1,000 fine. Webster was sworn in as mayor
earlier than scheduled and a school computer kept sending him checks for his
work as superintendent because it didn't have the new date in its system,
Webster's lawyer said.
Curt Weldon
PA State representative (
In Washington, D.C. ) is diabetic. He was diagnosed two years ago. He is
featured on the cover of the latest issue of DIABETES ADVOCATE.
Gordon Justin Wright
a former diplomat
and an authority on European history, died of
complications from diabetes Tuesday Jan. 11,2000.
He was 87. A specialist on French history, World War II and its impact on
European institutions and culture, Wright wrote 15 books, including,
``Raymond Poincare and the French Presidency,'' ``The Reshaping of French
Democracy'' and ``Rural Revolution in France: The Peasantry in the Twentieth
Century.'' During and after World War II, he served as a State Department
specialist on France and as a foreign service officer. Wright became
a Stanford professor in 1957, going on to lead the history department and serve
as associate dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences.
Maria Esther Zuno
Maria Esther Zuno, wife of former
President Luis Echeverria and a woman known for championing women's rights
and domestic social and cultural programs, has died, Mexican newspapers
reported. She was 74. Zuno died Saturday of complications
from diabetes, the reports said Sunday. She would have celebrated
her 75th birthday on Wednesday, the daily Universal said. President
Ernesto Zedillo and former President Jose Lopez Portillo
were among dignitaries paying their
respects Saturday at the Echeverrias' home, where the former first lady's body
lay in state. Zuno was married for 54 years to Echeverria, who
governed Mexico from 1970 to 1976. The two met at the home of famous
Mexican muralist Diego Rivera and were married in January 1945. They had
eight children. In addition to her friendship with Rivera, Zuno had close
ties to well-known Mexican artists David Alfaro Siqueiros, Jose Clemente
Orozco and Isidro Fabela. She also was friends with the late Chilean
President Salvador Allende, according to Universal. Among Zuno's
priorities as first lady were support of domestic social programs and equal
rights for women. She also promoted Mexican cultural traditions, conducting
goodwill tours in other countries to share traditional dance, dress, music
and art. In addition to her husband, Zuno is survived by seven of her
eight children, and 19 grandchildren