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DATE: SATURDAY, May 28, 1994                   TAG: 9405310169
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: NEW YORK                                LENGTH: Short

STATESMAN GEORGE W. BALL DIES AT 84

George W. Ball, the lawyer, economist and diplomat who counseled Presidents Kennedy and Johnson against escalation of the Vietnam War, is dead at age 84.

Ball, who resided in Princeton, N.J., checked into New York Hospital for tests and died Thursday, said his son John. The cause of death was not immediately determined. An autopsy was to be done.

Ball held the No. 2 and 3 positions in the State Department for nearly six years and later served a year as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under Johnson.

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