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Obituaries

By TIMES WIRES
Published February 11, 2007

Harriett Woods, a former Missouri lieutenant governor who championed other women politicians after becoming the first elected to statewide office in Missouri, died Thursday (Feb. 8, 2007) of leukemia. She was 79. Woods, a Democrat, became Missouri's lieutenant governor in 1984 and served one term. Before that, she served eight years in the state Senate. She also made unsuccessful bids for the U.S. Senate in 1982 and 1986.

Antonio Pierro, who was believed to be the last remaining World War I veteran in Massachusetts and among the last in the country, died Thursday (Feb. 8, 2007) in Salem, Mass. He was 110. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, Pierro's death leaves only seven World War I veterans on VA rolls nationwide. Guinness World Records said Pierro was the oldest war veteran and the oldest U.S. man in its records.

Alan MacDiarmid, a Nobel chemistry laureate, died after suffering a fall at his home in Philadelphia on Wednesday (Feb. 7, 2007). He was 79. MacDiarmid was one of three joint winners of the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2000 for the discovery that plastic can be made electrically conductive, an advance that led to improvements in film, TV screens and windows. A native of New Zealand, MacDiarmid had lived and worked in the United States since 1950 and was a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania for more than 45 years.

Angela E.V. King, a Jamaican diplomat who became an advocate for women's equality and was the first special adviser to the U.N. secretary-general on women's advancement, died Monday (Feb. 5, 2007) of complications from breast cancer. She was 68. During a 38-year career at the United Nations, King led efforts to end discrimination against women and promote gender equality. She was also one of a handful of women to lead a U.N. peace-building mission - in South Africa from 1992 to 1994 during elections.

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