Dan Carmichael; UPI Reporter, Union Activist

Dan Carmichael, 38, a veteran wire service reporter and union activist who was instrumental in the sale of United Press International to a Mexican publisher. He reported for UPI for 20 years, beginning in Honolulu in 1971, and worked at the news service’s Dallas and New York bureaus before transferring to Washington in 1983, where he covered the Labor Department and then the Justice Department. Carmichael served as secretary-treasurer of the Wire Service Guild for eight years. When UPI declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1985, Carmichael was at the forefront of UPI’s sale to Mexican publisher Mario Vasquez Rana. In Alexandria, Va., on Sunday of the complications of AIDS.