Former secretary of state Warren Christopher dies at 85, AP reports

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Breaking News Alert: Former secretary of state Warren Christopher dies at 85, AP reports

March 19, 2011 5:09:18 AM
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Warren M. Christopher, a Democratic Party mandarin who led the State Department during President Bill Clinton’s first term and found himself confronted by an array of foreign policy crises, most profoundly the ethnic slaughter in the Balkans and Rwanda, died Friday night in Los Angeles of complications from kidney and bladder cancer, the Associated Press reported. He was 85.

Almost four years after stepping down as secretary of state, Mr. Christopher, a senior adviser to Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign against Republican George W. Bush, returned to the public arena as chief of the team that litigated the results of the Florida recount.

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