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RICHARD HONGISTO, AGED 67, DIED OF A HEART ATTACK ON NOVEMBER 4, 2004. A flamboyant and controversial figure in San Francisco Bay Area politics, he lived the last years of his life in personal and economic turmoil: his second wife died from a drug overdose in 1994; in 1998, his security guard business went bankrupt; and on the day of his death, the police had been called in response to a nasty fight with his girlfriend. His last foray into public office was as police chief of San Francisco in 1992, an appointment that lasted only 45 days when he was caught removing 2,000 copies of the local gay newspaper, the Bay Times. Its lead story - headlined "Dick's Cool New Tool: Martial...