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JOHN BIBB, 72, retired sports editor for The Tennessean, died of cancer on April 4. He began his career at the paper in 1942, and retired in 1993. He was also a two-time president of the Golf Writers Association of America, and a member of the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame.
HERNANDO SANTOS CASTILLO,
the director of the Bogota, Colombia, daily El Tiempo, died April 20 of a cerebral hemorrhage. He was 77. A journalist for more than 50 years, since 1981 Castillo led Colombia's biggest paper during the country's reign of terrorism from drug gangs and guerrilla forces. In 1990, his son Francisco, the paper's editor, was kidnapped by members of Pablo Escobar's cocaine cartel and held for 242 days before release.
ROBERT V. COX, 72, a Pulitzer Prize winner for a deadline piece on a manhunt that ended with the killing of a crazed sniper, in 1967, died April 5. Cox published two books: "Deadly Pursuit" and "Missing Person." He retired in 1989. CHARLES DAVIS, a computer colunnist and assistant news editor for The Daily Oklahoman, died of cancer on April 12 at the age of 45. He had been with the newspaper since 1980.
RAYMOND F. "BUD" HARVISON, 71, a former Associated Press newsman died in...