Author: DXO
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GoogObits: Ehud Sprinzak, 62, Studied Israel Far Right, Is DeadGoogObits:
Ehud Sprinzak, 62, Studied Israel Far Right, Is Dead November 12, 2002 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM, Nov. 11 — Ehud Sprinzak, an Israeli counterterrorism specialist and expert in far-right Jewish groups, died on Friday at a hospital near Tel Aviv. He was 62. The cause was cancer, his colleagues said. Mr. Sprinzak, a political science professor, was one of the few…
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GoogObits: AP Photographer Eddie Worth Dies
AP Photographer Eddie Worth Dies Wednesday November 13, 2002 8:30 PM LONDON (AP) – Eddie Worth, a news photographer who covered the battles for western Europe after D-Day and went on to cover the war trials of Nazi leaders, has died at the age of 93. Worth, who worked for The Associated Press for most of his career, was a…
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GoogObits: Matel Dawson Jr., Philanthropic Auto Worker, Dies at 81
Matel Dawson Jr., a forklift operator with a ninth-grade education who gave more than $1 million to universities for scholarships and to charities, died on Nov. 2 in his one-bedroom apartment in Highland Park, Mich. He was 81.
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Abrupt Amnesty at Iraqi Prisons
John F. Burns | New York Times | October 25, 2002 No event in years has shaken Iraq like the amnesty with which President Saddam Hussein emptied Iraq’s jails on Sunday. Within minutes of the broadcast at noon, a crowd began gathering outside Abu Ghraib prison, 20 miles west of Baghdad, the grimmest in a…
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GoogObits: Rabbi Zorach Warhaftig, 96, Rescuer of Polish Jews, Dies
Zorach Warhaftig, a rabbi from Byelorussia who persuaded a Japanese diplomat to defy his government’s orders and help save several thousand Jews during World War II, died on Sept. 26 in Jerusalem. He was 96.