• 'On that note, class concluded'

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan : Daniel Patrick Moynihan (76), the scholar and senator, orator and author, whose intellectual and political leadership did much to shape US national policy on the major issues of his time, died on Wednesday in Washington, where he was recovering from an infection after an emergency appendectomy. p
  

• Head of family business that was world leader in shipping of live cattle

  Seamus Purcell: Seamus Purcell, who has died aged 80, headed a family business that became the world's largest shipper of live cattle. p
  

• Brought new vision of TV's role

  Gunnar Rugheimer: Gunnar Rugheimer, who died on February 21st, on the eve of his 80th birthday, will be remembered as an innovative controller of programmes in the early days of Telefís Éireann who resisted political and church pressures in establishing current affairs as part of the station's output. p
  

• Finnish soldier, diplomat and peacekeeper

  Enzio Siilasvuo: Enzio Siilasvuo of Finland, a soldier at the age of 19, was wounded twice in the second World War. He eventually became the senior UN general in the Middle East, as chief co-ordinator of the various UN forces there. p
  

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