Leukemia Killed Agnew, Family Says
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, 77, died of “undiagnosed acute leukemia,” his family said in a terse statement released by hospital officials in Berlin, Md., where he died the day before. Any funeral services would be private, the statement said.
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