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Presidential candidate dies

Monday 20 January 1997 00:02 GMT
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Former Massachusetts senator and Democratic presidential candidate Paul Tsongas died of pneumonia on Saturday. He was 55.

Mr Tsongas, a Massachusetts senator who retired from Congress in 1985, ran for president in 1992, losing the Democratic presidential nomination to Bill Clinton who went on to defeat George Bush. Reuters - Boston

Obituary, page 16

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