Lawrence S. Eagleburger, diplomat and onetime secretary of state, dies at 80 (Washington Post)

Lawrence S. Eagleburger, a onetime ambassador who held high-level positions
under five presidents and who was the first career Foreign Service officer to
become secretary of state, died June?4 of pneumonia at the University of
Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville. He was 80 and had lived outside
Charlottesville since 1990.

Much of Mr. Eagleburger?s work took place behind closed doors as a participant
in the international strategies of every president from Richard M. Nixon
through George H.W. Bush. A plain-spoken, likable diplomat, Mr. Eagleburger
rose to prominence as a protege of Henry Kissinger?s.

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