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. |