* Yale Newman; Radio Marti Founder, International TV News Pioneer

Yale Newman, 68, a founder of Radio Marti and pioneer in international television news. He was ABC’s London bureau chief from 1953 to 1963, formative years in television. He produced the network’s series on Winston Churchill, “The Valiant Years,” and won a Peabody Award for his coverage of the Adolf Eichmann trial in Jerusalem. Newman joined the Foreign Service in 1966, and served as spokesman for U.S. embassies in Argentina, Panama and Venezuela. He also directed the Voice of America service to Latin America and helped create Radio Marti, which broadcasts to Cuba. On Feb. 24 in New York of the intestinal disease amyloidosis.