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News Diary: November 1996Compiled by Jerome Lim (Associated Press)Nov. 4 -- Zairian Tutsi rebels declare a cease-fire in eastern Zaire and agree to allow
aid agencies
to try to get Hutu refugees home to Burundi and Rwanda; Pakistan's president dismisses
government of
Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. A roll call of those we lostJunius Richard Jayewardene, who in two terms as Sri Lanka's president reformed the economy but failed to stop the country's slide into civil war in the '80s. Nov. 1. Age 90. Colon cancer. William Clarke, a factory worker-turned-blues harmonica player who combined hot Chicago licks with West Coast swing. Nov. 2. Age 45. Bleeding ulcer. Jean-Bedel Bokassa, former self-proclaimed "emperor" of the Central African Republic, accused of slaughtering and cannibalizing critics of his regime in the '60s and '70s. Nov. 3. Age 75. Heart attack. Bernard Lafferty, the butler whose control over tobacco heiress Doris Duke's billion-dollar estate led to accusations that he killed her, accusations eventually rejected by prosecutors. Nov. 4. Age 52. Mario Savio, leader of the University of California-Berkeley free speech protests of the '60s that ushered in a decade of campus dissent. Nov. 6. Age 53. Heart disease. Alma Kitchell Yoder, who began singing on radio in its experimental stages and went on to be a radio talk-show host and host of one of the first commercial TV series, "In the Kelvinator Kitchen," in 1947. Nov. 13. Age 103. Virginia Cherrill, who played Charlie Chaplin's friend, the beautiful blind flower girl, in his "City Lights." Nov. 14. Age 88. Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, who as head of the Chicago Archdiocese was one of the Roman Catholic Church's strongest voices for social justice and, in his final months, an example of courage in the face of death. Nov. 14. Age 68. Cancer. Alger Hiss, the patrician public servant who fell from grace in a Communist spy scandal that propelled Richard Nixon to higher office. Nov. 15. Age 92. Bob Magness, who ran a tiny cable television company out of his kitchen before building Tele-Communications Inc. into the nation's largest cable provider. Nov. 15. Age 72. Lymphoma. Former Tennessee Gov. Ray Blanton, who was ousted from office three days early in a cash-for-clemency scandal and later went to prison for taking a payoff for a liquor license. Nov. 22. Age 66. Liver disease. Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photographer whose images of famine victims in Ethiopia stirred world reaction in 1984. Nov. 23. Age 53. Crash of hijacked Ethiopian Airlines jet. Elrey B. Jeppesen, aviation pioneer whose collections of maps, the Jeppesen Airway Manuals, became standard cockpit equipment for the airline industry. Nov. 26. Age 89. John Salvi, troubled young man convicted of murder for killing receptionists at two Boston-area abortion clinics in 1994. Nov. 29. Age 24. Suicide. Tiny Tim, falsetto-voiced singer famed for "Tip-Toe Thru' the Tulips with Me," whose strange looks and childlike manner mesmerized 1960s TV audiences. Nov. 30. Age 70ish. Heart failure.
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