WORLD : N.Y. Times Writer Found Dead
New York Times foreign correspondent James Markham was found dead in his Paris apartment today in what police said was a suicide, the newspaper said.
Markham, 46, had just been named the paper’s next deputy foreign editor, a post he was to have assumed Sept. 11.
A veteran correspondent, he joined the newspaper as a metropolitan reporter in 1971 and later reported from Europe, Asia and the Middle East, serving in such cities as Bonn, Paris, Madrid, Beirut and Saigon.
A graduate of Princeton and a former Rhodes scholar, Markham spoke half a dozen languages, ranging from Spanish to Hindustani.
He is survived by his wife, Stephanie; their daughter, Katharine, and their son, Sam, who was the last American born in what was then Saigon.
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