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- MILESTONES, Page 70
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- DIED. Joseph Pechman, 71, voluble economist who helped shape
- the landmark Tax Reform Act of 1986; of a heart attack; in Potomac,
- Md. A senior fellow at the Brookings Institution since 1960,
- Pechman forcefully campaigned for the elimination of loopholes in
- the tax code in return for fairer, lower rates. He was a member of
- TIME's Board of Economists from 1970 to 1981.