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- DIED. Irving Kaufman, 81, federal judge who sentenced Julius
- and Ethel Rosenberg to the electric chair in 1951; in New York
- City. The Rosenbergs were convicted of conspiring to deliver atom-
- bomb secrets to the Soviet Union. While the judge wrote a number
- of landmark decisions during his career, he was plagued by the
- controversial case throughout his life.
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