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- Aug. 19, 1991: Died:Dean Burch
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Aug. 19, 1991 Hostages:Why Now? Who's Next?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 54
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- <p> DIED. Dean Burch, 63, chairman of the Federal Communications
- Commission under President Richard Nixon; of cancer; in
- Potomac, Md. In 1964 he led Barry Goldwater's unsuccessful bid
- for the White House. As head of the FCC from 1969 to 1974, Burch
- pressured the television networks to give more favorable
- commentary on Nixon's speeches and advocated more and better
- programs for children. He denounced much children's fare as
- "just chewing gum for the eyes."
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- </body></article>
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