ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Tuesday, March 26, 1996                TAG: 9603260079
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL   PAGE: A-3  EDITION: METRO 

IN THE NATION

Muskie is critical after heart attack

WASHINGTON - Former Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie was in critical condition Monday after suffering a heart attack while recovering from surgery.

The surgery last week to clear a blocked artery in his leg was successful, but Muskie, 81, suffered a heart attack a few days later while still at Georgetown University Hospital, said his assistant.

Muskie, a former governor and longtime senator from Maine, was an early favorite to win the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972 but lost to George McGovern.

- Associated Press

Briefly ...

David Hale, the prosecution's chief witness in the Whitewater trial of three former associates of President Clinton, was sentenced Monday to 28 months in prison and fined $10,000 arising out of his plea agreement two years ago. The former Arkansas businessman and onetime municipal judge also was ordered to pay $2 million in restitution to the federal government.

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