AP News, June 7th, 2007
Jim Clark
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) _ Former Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark, whose violent confrontations with voting rights marchers in Selma shocked the nation in 1965 and gave momentum to the civil rights movement, has died. He was 84.
Clark, who wore a "Never" button on his sheriff's uniform to show his opposition to black voter registration, died at an Elba nursing home late Monday after years of declining health due to a stroke and heart surgery, Hayes Funeral Home officials said Wednesday.
Clark was voted out of office in 1966, in large measure because of opposition from newly registered black voters, but throughout his life he maintained he had done the right thing in 1965.
He and his deputies joined state troopers in attacking marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in March of that year, an event that became known as "Bloody Sunday." It prompted the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to lead a voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery and got Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act.
The Voting Rights Act opened Southern polling places to blacks and dramatically changed the political landscape of the South, including Selma. Some 9,000 blacks registered to vote in Dallas County, where only 350 had been registered even though blacks made up a majority of the population.
Clark later sold mobile homes, largely staying out of the spotlight until 1978, when he spent nine months in federal prison for conspiring to import marijuana.
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Charles William Maynes
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Charles William Maynes, editor of Foreign Policy magazine for 18 years and a former State Department official, died last Saturday at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He was 68.
From 1977 to 1980 he was assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs in the administration of President Jimmy Carter. He then became editor of Foreign Policy magazine, an influential foreign policy journal, and held the post until 1997.
The magazine is published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a private think tank. At his death, Maynes, known as Bill, was president emeritus of the Eurasia Foundation, which assists countries of the former Soviet Union.
Maynes' death was reported by a Carnegie spokesman, Jeff Marn.
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Wallace McIntosh
LONDON (AP)_ Wallace McIntosh, widely believed to be the British air force's most decorated gunner in World War II, has died. He was 87.
McIntosh, who flew 55 sorties as a rear gunner and is believed to hold the record for most enemy kills, died Monday at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary of lung cancer, Royal Air Force spokesman Michael Mulford said.
McIntosh flew between February 1943 and June 1944, and military records show he retired with a record of eight kills and one "probable" during bombing raids across Europe.
His greatest achievement came during the D-Day advance when he was credited with downing three German fighter planes during a single mission aboard his Lancaster bomber on June 7, 1944.
For this he received the rare accolade of a telegram of congratulations from Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris. Only three such telegrams were ever sent.
McIntosh was awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal and twice received the Distinguished Flying Cross_ the RAF's most vaunted medal for bravery.
Air crews operated in some of the most hazardous conditions of World War II. About 1,000 men from McIntosh's squadron died.
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Ed Weidner
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) _ Ed Weidner, who was hired in 1966 as chancellor for a university campus that didn't exist and developed a vision into the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, died Wednesday of congestive heart failure. He was 85.
Weidner was chosen to create and lead a curriculum for a new four-year university on Green Bay's far northeast side.
His first office was in a farmhouse when he arrived in Green Bay in 1967, but he centered the university curriculum around the environment, interdisciplinary education and problem solving that became a model for future campuses as the first buildings opened in 1969.
Weidner was also a major supporter of athletics, especially growing women's sports.
Weidner came to Green Bay from the University of Kentucky, where he was a professor of political science and director of the Center for Developmental Change. He had previously headed programs at the University of Hawaii and Michigan State University.
Weidner used the term "communiversity" as he worked to acquire more community involvement in UWGB.
(This version CORRECTS McIntosh obit to correct spelling of 'Marshal.')
