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Longtime AP correspondent, editor Marcus Eliason dies at 75

AP staffers, from left, Granville (Bob) Watts, Chief of Bureau Hal McClure, newsman Marcus Eliason, Secretary Ilana Balaban, messengers Michael Gross, Marcel Castro, front, and photographer Brian Calvert pose for a photograph on July 15, 1969, in Tel Aviv, Israel. Eliason, an international journalist whose insightful reporting, sparkling prose and skillful editing graced Associated Press news wires for almost a half-century, has died at age 75. Eliason died on Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, in a New York hospital, his family said. (AP Photo/Brian Calvert)

This 2011 photo shows Associated Press journalist Marcus Eliason in New York. Eliason, an international journalist whose insightful reporting, sparkling prose and skillful editing graced Associated Press news wires for almost a half-century, has died at age 75. Eliason died on Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, in a New York hospital, his family said. (AP Photo/Charles J. Hanley)

Longtime AP correspondent, editor Marcus Eliason dies at 75