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- <text id=91TT0798>
- <title>
- Apr. 15, 1991: American Notes:Washington
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Apr. 15, 1991 Saddam's Latest Victims
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 39
- American Notes
- WASHINGTON
- Tragedy Strikes Twice
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- <p> Capitol Hill grieved last week when Senator Henry John Heinz
- III, 52, was killed in an airplane crash in Pennsylvania. A day
- later, Washington was once more stunned, when former four-term
- Texas Senator John Tower, 65, and his daughter Marian, 35, were
- among those who died in a commuter-plane crash near Brunswick,
- Ga.
- </p>
- <p> One of the Senate's wealthiest members, Heinz had been an
- unlikely champion of unions, the aged and the disabled. After
- retiring from the Senate in 1984, Tower served as a U.S. arms
- negotiator and chaired the three-man presidential review board
- that probed the Iran-contra affair. In 1988, George Bush
- nominated him for Secretary of Defense, touching off a bruising
- fight between Congress and the White House. Amid rumors of hard
- drinking and womanizing, Tower was voted down by the Senate, 53
- to 47, the first time in 30 years that a President had been
- denied a Cabinet choice.
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- </body></article>
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