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U.S. News // 1 decade ago

Diplomat Lawrence Eagleburger dies at 80

Lawrence Eagleburger, a veteran U.S. diplomat and briefly secretary of state, died Saturday at age 80, his family said.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Bipartisan Baker-Hamilton goes partisan

The Iraq Study Group touted its bipartisan stance in 2006 but a report says its members are back to taking opposite sides in the 2008 U.S. presidential race.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

Opposition growing to Kosovo independence

There is growing opposition, on both sides of the Atlantic, to any recognition of a unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo.

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Debate swirls over Iraq troop withdrawal

Western experts are widely divided on how the United States should exit its occupation of Iraq, now going into its fourth year.

Odd News // 2 decades ago

'Sleeping with the Devil,' and the Saudis

Robert Baer is a retired CIA agent and the author of "See No Evil," a chronicle of the CIA and its loss of power and efficiency in the last few years.

Top News // 2 decades ago

Fix trans-Atlantic rift, group declares

A bipartisan group of 18 former cabinet-level officials from the departments of Defense, State and Treasury, along with officials from the the National Security Council and Congress, released a joint declaration calling for exploration of ways to strength

Top News // 2 decades ago

UPI's Capital Comment for April 7, 2003

Capital Comment -- Daily news notes, political rumors, and important events that shape politics and public policy in Washington and the world from United Press International.

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Top News // 2 decades ago

Sept. 11: George W. Bush's moment

The attacks on that September morning startled him, perhaps even shook him for a time and history may never know the truth. But very quickly George W. Bush, an inexperienced president, just finishing the eighth month of what the media had already decided

Outside View // 2 decades ago

Outside view: More than a game of chicken?

The United States and Iraq are like two cars facing off at the opposite ends of a long road, engines at full throttle and both drivers ready to play a dangerous

Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger (August 1, 1930 – June 4, 2011) was an American statesman and former career diplomat, who served briefly as the United States Secretary of State under President George H. W. Bush. Previously, he had served in lesser capacities under Presidents Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush. He was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin.

Eagleberger is the only career foreign service officer to serve as the United States Secretary of State to date.

Eagleburger was born in Milwaukee, the son of Helen (née Van Ornum), an elementary school teacher, and Leon Sidney Eagleburger, a physician. He graduated from P J Jacobs High School in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, then attended Stevens Point State College (now the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point), before earning his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. During his time at Wisconsin, he joined Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity. On May 6, 1995, he delivered the commencement address to the 1995 graduating class of James Madison University.

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