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- DIED. Warren G. Magnuson, 84, former U.S. Senator; of
- congestive heart failure brought on by diabetes; in Seattle. First
- elected to Congress in 1936, he served six terms in the Senate.
- Fellow Democrat Walter Mondale once joked that as chairman of the
- Appropriations Committee, Magnuson divided federal funds
- fifty-fifty: half for his home state of Washington, half for the
- rest of the country.