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Laurabelle Zack Oatis, 88, former AP staffer

Laurabelle Zack Oatis, whose pleading letter to the former Czechoslovakian government helped free her imprisoned husband, Associated Press correspondent William N. Oatis, during the early days of the Cold War, has died. She was 88.

Oatis died Tuesday at a nursing home from complications of a stroke, according to her son, former AP editor Jonathan Oatis. A graveside service is scheduled for...

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