Hans Heymann Jr., 91, an economist who advised three U.S. presidents on the Soviet Union and the Vietnam Warsubjects he knew intimately as a key contributor to the top-secret history of the war known as the Pentagon Papers — died Jan. 10 at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington.
He had complications from heart disease, said his daughter Kendra Sagoff.
Heymann began his career in 1950 as an analyst at the Rand Corp., a government contractor and think tank, and later served as a senior economics officer at the CIA and as a foreign policy adviser to the Ford, Carter and Reagan White Houses.
He specialized in the political environments and economies of Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and the Southeast Asian countries of Thailand, Laos and Vietnam.
Reginald Hill, 75, a British crime writer famed for his Dalziel and Pascoe series of detective novels, has died after a struggle with cancer. Hill wrote more than 40 books, starting with the publication of his first novel, “A Clubbable Woman,” in 1970.
Charles Price II, 80, a former U.S. ambassador to Great Britain who coordinated friendly relations between President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, died Thursday in California.
Price, who also served as Reagan’s ambassador to Belgium, died at his home in Indian Wells, said family spokesman Michael Landes. Landes said the family had asked him not to immediately release the cause of death.
Richard Threlkeld, 74, an award-winning correspondent who worked for both CBS News and ABC News during a long career, was killed in a car crash Friday on New York’s Long Island.
Threlkeld died in Amagansett, N.Y., when his car collided with a propane tanker. He was pronounced dead at Southampton Hospital, according to the East Hampton, N.Y., Police Department.
Threlkeld spent more than 25 years at CBS News before retiring in 1998. He covered the Persian Gulf War and the Vietnam War, the Patty Hearst kidnapping and trial, the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, and the execution of Gary Gilmore.
Rauf Denktash, 87, the former Turkish Cypriot leader whose determined pursuit of a separate state for his people and strong opposition to the divided island’s reunification defined a political career spanning six decades, died Friday of multiple organ failure at Near East University Hospital in the Turkish Cypriot north of Nicosia. He had been in poor health since suffering a stroke in May. Denktash was hospitalized last week with diarrhea and dehydration.
Denver Post wire services
