NATION : CBS Reporter Robert Schakne Dies
<i> From Times wire services</i>
NEW YORK —
Robert Schakne, who covered stories for CBS News from Vietnam to Watergate and Three Mile Island to the Iran-Contra affair, died today in Washington. He was 63.
Schakne, who retired in July, 1988, was a 33-year veteran of CBS. He had been an investigative correspondent in the CBS News Washington bureau since 1976 and worked on such other major news stories as the investigation of the Challenger space shuttle disaster. He also covered the nuclear power industry on a regular basis.
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