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Former UPI reporter Alcott dies

PETALUMA, Calif., Aug. 25 (UPI) -- David L. Alcott, a former reporter in the London and San Francisco offices of United Press International, has died of heart failure following a long illness.

Alcott died Aug. 9 at his home in Petaluma. He was 63.

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He was a news reporter and editor for most of his career after his graduation from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 1963.

He was a staff writer for UPI in London and San Francisco and worked for Radio Free Europe in Munich. He later wrote for newspapers in Missouri, Hawaii and California, including the Petaluma Argus-Courier and the Oakland Tribune.

Alcott also worked as a writer and editor for El Malcriado, the United Farm Workers of America newspaper under UFW founder Cesar Chavez.

Alcott is survived by his daughter, Kathleen M. Alcott, 16, a junior at Petaluma High School; his former wife, Carolyn Alcott of Petaluma; his mother, Muriel Alcott of Independence, Mo.; his sisters, Barbara Dawson of Independence, Mo., and Martha Alcott Nilan of Sacramento; three nephews, Douglas Dawson of Madison, Wis., Christopher Dawson of Oberlin, Ohio and Patrick Nilan of Sacramento; and a niece, Katherine Nilan of Sacramento.

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