Harry Lee, 75, a seven-term suburban New Orleans sheriff whose blunt talk sometimes led to sour relations with black leaders, died Monday in Metairie, La., of leukemia, his chief deputy said.
His clashes with black leaders as sheriff of the mostly white New Orleans suburb often made news. After Hurricane Katrina devastated the region Aug. 29, 2005, Lee’s agency faced an upsurge in crime. He prompted outrage by suggesting his deputies could randomly question young black men in high-crime areas and considered using video cameras to monitor street groups and vehicle license plates.
Milan Jelic, 51, president of Bosnia’s Serb Republic, died Sunday of a heart attack at his home in Modrica, his brother Slavko Jelic said.
Jelic was elected president of the Serb Republic – one of the two mini- states that make up Bosnia and Herzegovina – in October 2006. The presidency is a largely ceremonial position.
Jelic was a member of the Serb Democratic Party founded by wartime Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, now a war crimes fugitive. In 1998, Jelic switched to the Independent Social Democrats, currently the most influential Bosnian Serb party. He also was president of Bosnia’s Soccer Federation.
Ken Danby, 67, a Canadian artist known for crystalline landscapes and portraits of athletes, but mostly for a photolike depiction of a hunched-over hockey goalie glaring through his mask, died Sept. 23 in northern Ontario. He suffered a heart attack while canoeing in Algonquin Park, where he was taking photos to record the colors of fall for his next painting, said Sheila Szabo, his business representative.
In 1972, hockey fever was even higher than usual in Canada, with its national team facing an underdog squad from the Soviet Union. Tied at three games apiece, with one tie, the series was decided when Canada scored a rebound goal 34 seconds before the final buzzer of the eighth game. As the nation celebrated, Danby’s 28-by-40-inch goalie painting “At the Crease” became something of a national symbol. The original is privately owned, but more than 200,000 prints have been sold.
