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Rory Marshall
PHOENIX (AP) — Rory Marshall, an editor on The Associated Press' West regional desk, died Sunday. He was 54.
Marshall died of complications from lung cancer, family members said.
Marshall, a veteran editor with a dry sense of humor, went to work for the AP in Seattle in 1982 after nearly five years at The Bellingham (Wash.) Herald, where he covered the courts and police, became known for a folksy writing style, and eventually was named assistant city editor.
His AP reporting assignments included two major trials in Seattle in the mid- and late 1980s: the federal prosecution of leaders of a violent white supremacist group called The Order; and a lawsuit in which the late Ferdinand Marcos, deposed ruler of the Philippines, and his widow, Imelda, were found liable for the killing of two anti-Marcos union activists.
Marshall was a desk supervisor in Seattle for much of the 1990s. He also was a union shop steward for the News Media Guild, part of The Newspaper Guild, AFL-CIO.
Marshall, an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed camping and hiking, was born in Los Angeles and grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and in Upper Saddle River, N.J.
He earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, then worked for a brief stint in a Manhattan insurance office before returning to the West Coast to work at the Bellingham newspaper.
Marshall transferred to Phoenix in June to work on the AP's new West regional desk.
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Hironoshin Furuhashi
ROME (AP) — Hironoshin Furuhashi, one of Japan's first great swimmers and vice president of FINA, the governing body of swimming, has died. He was 80.
The swimming organization said Sunday that Furuhashi died in his sleep. He was in Rome for the world championships. No cause of death was given.
Known as "the Flying Fish," Furuhashi set several world records in 1949. He later helped organize the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo and became president of Japan's Olympic committee and swimming federation.
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Shafik Hout
BEIRUT (AP) — Shafik Hout, a close aide to Yasser Arafat who fell out with the late Palestinian leader over the 1993 peace accords with Israel, died Sunday. He was 77.
A statement released by the Palestinian Authority's representative office in Beirut did not give the cause of Hout's death but an official at the office reached by telephone said he died of cancer at the American University hospital in Beirut Sunday morning. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to release the information to the media.
Hout, a founding member of the Palestine Liberation Organization, resigned from the PLO in 1993 in protest against the Palestinian-Israeli agreements.
Born in the Palestinian city of Jaffa on Jan. 13, 1932, Hout emigrated with his family to Lebanon in 1948 following the creation of Israel, according to the Palestinian statement.
After graduating from the American University of Beirut in 1953, Hout worked as a schoolteacher in Beirut before moving to teach in Kuwait. He later returned to Lebanon where he worked as a journalist.
He authored several books in Arabic on the Palestinian issue.
Hout served as the PLO's official spokesman between 1974 until 1992 and was a longtime PLO representative in Beirut.
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Lu Young
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Lu Young, the wife of U.S. Rep. Don Young, died Saturday night or early Sunday. She was 67.
Meredith Kenny, a spokeswoman for the Alaska Republican, said Lu Young died at the couple's home in Great Falls, Va.
Meredith Kenny said the cause of death is unknown but is believed to have stemmed from natural causes. The Youngs were married for 46 years.
Young, Alaska's lone congressman, refuted rumors in 2003 that he was considering leaving office because of Lu's health. At a press conference, he introduced his wife, who had what Young called a slight stroke six months earlier.
Lu Young said the "Youngs do not retire."
According to Young's congressional biography, Lu Young was a bookkeeper when the couple met in the Athabascan village of Fort Yukon, just above the Arctic Circle. Don Young was working as an elementary school teacher at the village school at the time.
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