B. Carrasco Briseno; Oaxaca Archbishop

Archbishop Emeritus Bartolome Carrasco Briseno, 80, who championed the poor during 17 years as head of the Oaxaca, Mexico, archdiocese. Carrasco Briseno was archbishop of Oaxaca from 1976 to 1993. He believed in liberation theology, which calls on the Roman Catholic Church to lift people out of oppression and poverty. The southwest state of Oaxaca is one of Mexico’s poorest. Carrasco Briseno was born in Tlaxco in the central state of Tlaxcala and was ordained as a priest in 1945. Before becoming archbishop of Oaxaca, he had served as bishop in the cities of Huejutla and Tapachula and as apostolic administrator. Of kidney failure Thursday in the parish house of the Virgin of Guadalupe temple in Oaxaca.

David Dennis; Voted Not to Impeach Nixon

Former Rep. David Dennis, 86, whose vote against impeaching President Nixon cost him his seat in Congress. Dennis was a three-term Republican congressman from Indiana and a member of the House Judiciary Committee. One of two Republican committee members who called on Nixon to release tapes of 42 conversations that were thought to bear directly on the Watergate cover-up, Dennis said at the time that Nixon was “making a serious mistake” if he did not hand over the tapes. A combative conservative who was described by a committee colleague as a “bantam rooster,” Dennis had supported the Nixon administration with 76% of his votes in 1973. In 1974, he voted against the articles of impeachment. In November of that year, his heavily blue-collar Indiana constituents voted him out of office, electing a Democrat whom he had defeated in two previous elections. On Wednesday in Richmond, Ind., of pneumonia.

James Hammerstein; Theater Director

James Hammerstein, 67, theater director, producer and son of legendary lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II. James Hammerstein directed or produced revivals of many of his father’s musicals with Richard Rodgers, including “The King and I,” “The Sound of Music,” “Carousel,” “South Pacific” and “Oklahoma!” He co-produced the current off-Broadway musical revue “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change,” and the comedy “Over the River and Through the Woods.” He co-directed the stage version of “State Fair,” the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein film musical that ran for three months on Broadway in 1996. On Thursday of a heart attack in New York.

Henrietta Moraes; Modeled for Bacon, Freud

Henrietta Moraes, 67, who modeled for the painters Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud during a life of Bohemian extreme that included a brief career as a cat burglar. Moraes, born Audrey Wendy Abbott in Simla, India, was raised by a cruel grandmother in London. At 18 she walked out of a secretarial college and found work as a life model. She once said that she didn’t have any moral problems with posing nude because “you could earn twice as much as when you kept your clothes on.” Bacon painted her more than a dozen times, once as a nude pinned to a bed by a hypodermic needle, titled “Lying Girl With Hypodermic Syringe.” She was married three times--her first husband, Michael Law, christened her Henrietta. She became a cat burglar in the ‘60s to fuel an amphetamine habit but was finally caught and served prison time. Survivors include two children. In London on Wednesday. Funeral arrangements were incomplete.

Norman Reyes; Broadcast the Fall of Bataan

Norman Reyes, 76, Filipino American radio broadcaster who was the voice of the resistance on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines during one of World War II’s bloodiest conflicts. Reyes was one of two men who ran a guerrilla radio station from Bataan, west of Manila, to rally American and Filipino soldiers against Japanese forces. The Allied troops had retreated to Bataan to wait for U.S. reinforcements, but help never arrived, turning the peninsula into a trap for the 70,000 soldiers. Reyes’ voice was the one they heard on the day Bataan was crushed--April 9, 1942. “Bataan has fallen,” Reyes said in the broadcast. “The Filipino and American troops on this war-ravaged and bloodstained peninsula laid down their arms. With heads bloodied but unbowed, they have yielded to the superior forces of the enemy.” Japanese soldiers forced the captive troops on a “death march” to a prison camp in Capas 100 miles away, but only 54,000 survived. Reyes also was captured and taken to Tokyo, where he was forced to work with the infamous “Tokyo Rose,” broadcasting war propaganda for Japan at Radio Tokyo. He was a defense witness for Iva Toguri d’Aquino, the only U.S. citizen among the dozen female broadcasters whom Allied forces dubbed “Tokyo Rose.” She was convicted of treason in San Francisco in 1949 and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Reyes was tried in the United States on espionage charges but was cleared. He later became a U.S. citizen and worked as a broadcaster in Honolulu. He had been bedridden for several months after a stroke and died in his sleep at a relative’s home in his native Philippines. On Friday, Manila television stations marked his death with replays of his famous announcement. Reyes is survived by his wife, Farida. On Thursday in San Pablo, Philippines.

Henry Roth; Violinist, Teacher, Music Critic

Henry Roth, 82, violinist, writer, teacher and music critic. Roth began performing publicly at the age of 5. After the family moved to California, he performed as a student at Los Angeles’ Belasco Theater with the Depression-era Federal Music Project. In 1937, Roth met Esther Klein, who became his regular pianist; three years later, they married. Roth worked as a studio musician with the 20th Century Fox Orchestra, the MGM orchestra and others. He also became a leader and major negotiator for the American Federation of Musicians, and his union activities spelled the end of his studio career. For a few years he worked in construction, then spent 30 years recording with various groups as a freelance violinist. Teaching violin until his death, Roth provided music criticism for the Strad violin magazine and the B’nai B’rith Messenger, wrote three books and myriad articles and lectured widely on violin playing. The handsome musician had overcome a lisp, making the lecturing possible, when he was asked to play Rudolf Valentino in a film that was never made. In 1992 Roth served as a juror for the Henryk Szeryng Violin Competition in Monaco. That year the Cleveland Institute of Music gave him an honorary doctoral degree in music for his accomplishments as a music historian and educator. On Jan. 1 in Los Angeles of cancer.

Kisshomaru Ueshiba; Expert on Aikido

Kisshomaru Ueshiba, 77, the founder and president of the International Aikido Federation. Born on June 27, 1921, in Ayabe, Japan, Ueshiba was the third son of Morihei Ueshiba, a noted authority on martial arts and founder of aikido. Kisshomaru Ueshiba was the author of several definitive books on aikido, of which there are believed to be about 1.2 million students in the world today. He was decorated by the Japanese government with “The Order of the Sacred Treasure” for his contributions to world peace and happiness through aikido. The Aikido Center of Los Angeles will conduct a memorial service for Ueshiba on Wednesday from 7 to 7:30 p.m. at 940 E. 2nd St., No. 7. Information: (213) 687-3673. In Tokyo on Jan. 4 after a long illness.