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In Remembrance: Robie Marcus Hooker Palmer ’63 Died on January 28 2013

Robie Marcus Hooker ("Mark") Palmer, a forceful and influential diplomat who served as US ambassador to Hungary during the collapse of communism, and who was a chief author of President Ronald Reagan's 1982 speech declaring that Marxism was headed toward "the ash heap of history," died January 28, 2013, at his home in Washington. He was 71.

Read the story published in the Washington Post on February 6, 2013.

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