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- DIED. Wilbur Mills, 82, powerful former chairman of the House
- Ways and Means Committee; in Searcy, Ark. After gaining a seat
- on the prestigious committee in 1943, the young Arkansas
- Democrat became its pre-eminent authority on taxation and
- longtime chairman. His career declined abruptly after a 1974
- drunken-driving incident that landed Fanne Fox, a stripper, in
- Washington's Tidal Basin. In his later years he was an active
- advocate of alcoholism treatment.
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