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Former Senator Paul Simon Dies
Blunt-Spoken Liberal Said 'Government
Is Not the Enemy'
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Dec.
10) - Former Illinois senator Paul Simon, 75, died Tuesday
from complications of heart surgery.
He had undergone heart bypass and valve surgery
Monday at St. John's Prairie Heart Institute, where he also had
heart surgery in 1999. The cause of death was extensive bowel ischemia,
in which blood stopped flowing to the intestines and caused the
release of toxic material into his body, said Dr. James Dove, president
of the institute. full
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