The only career foreign service officer to rise to the position of secretary of state, Lawrence Eagleburger died Saturday at age 80. Over 27 years in the foreign service, he served in the Nixon administration as executive assistant to Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, as President Jimmy Carter?s ambassador to Yugoslavia, and as an assistant secretary of state and then undersecretary of state in the first Reagan administration. Born Aug. 1, 1930, in Milwaukee, Eagleburger graduated from the University of Wisconsin.
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