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Jim Edgar, 79, Popular and Moderate Republican Governor of Illinois, Dies

In the 1990s, he compromised with Democrats, backed abortion rights, increased spending for schools and used an income-tax hike to help tame a huge budget deficit.

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Jim Edgar, the former Illinois governor, outside the State Capitol building in Springfield in 2014. He was a rare Republican public official who openly criticized President Trump.
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José María Tojeira, 78, Dies; Pursued Killers of His Fellow Priests

As the Jesuit leader in Central America, he pushed for justice when six priests were shot to death in the midst of El Salvador’s civil war.

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The Rev. José María Tojeira in 2003. Investigators found that the killings of his fellow priests had been planned at high levels of the El Salvador military.
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