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A24 SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1999 LOS ANGELES TIMES Obituaries LmmLmmJmmm I i jpyaj JM Samdach Bhante; Monk Advised Sihanouk, Nehru Samdach Vira Bhante, 110, a Cambodian monk who advised leaders of Cambodia and India. The Most Venerable Dharmawara Mahathera, known simply as Bhante to his family and friends, served as spiritual advisor to Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk and kept watch at the deathbed of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. The son of an upper-class family in Phnom Penh, Bhante was a lawyer, judge and provincial governor in Cambodia with a wife and young daughter when, at the age of 40, he walked into the forest to follow the teachings of Buddha. Educated in French schools and fluent in several languages, Bhante lived in huts and subsisted on raw fruits and vegetables and handouts from peasant farmers before moving to India, where he spent 45 years teaching and building a monastery. He gave up his possessions, cigarettes and alcohol, saying, "You are what you think.

You are what you eat and drink." Bhante came to California for what he thought would be a quiet life of meditation with his relatives, refugees from the Cambodian war. But he was soon asked to build a temple for Stockton's approximately 16,000 Cambodians, and served as head abbot for many years. His ashes will be divided between shrines -in Cambodia and India. On June 26 in Stockton. Vere C.

Bird; Led Antigua to Independence Vere C. Bird, 89, who brought independence to Antigua and founded the island's ruling political dynasty. Rising from poverty and without formal education, Bird became a union leader who defied British colonizers in the 1950s to demand higher wages for sugar cane cutters. He led his country to independence from Britain in 1981 and is still revered for that accomplishment, despite scandals that subsequently tainted the family name. Although Antigua began rapid development under Bird as chief minister and later prime minister, it has in recent years become known as one of the most corrupt countries in the Caribbean.

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On June 26 Northndge of emphysema. Cathollcos Garegln Head of Armenian Church Catholicos Garegin 66, leader of the Armenian Apostolic Church. Garegin was born Nshan Sarkisian in Kassab, Syria, and studied at seminary in Beirut, where he later became director. He was named I 7 I I Plain paper fax 144 bps, 6 sec -per-page (rTT- I II a I Cnlnrnrintnr 1 7nnmcnlnr I Color printer 8 nom black4 DDiTi color, iMulWii 6 ppm black, 600 dpi 1200x1200 dpi resolution -wy- I au I Scanner 300 dpi graphics "Color scanner 300 300 dpi si" I I Copier 3 cpm, 300 300 dpi Color copier 5 cpm black, 300 300 dpi I I 250-721 182-109 1 1 deacon in 1949 and took a vow of celibacy in 1952. He studied in the theology department of Oxford University in the late 1950s and in the 1970s led church dioceses in the United States, Iran and India.

The church leader took the name Garegin after an earlier Armenian cleric. Garegin was elected catholicos in 1995, succeeding Vazgen who had held the post for 40 years. Most of the 10 million Armenians worldwide are believed to be followers of the Armenian Apostolic Church. On Tuesday in Echmiadzin, Armenia, of cancer of the larynx. John P.

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2, 1942, they succeeded, and by 1944, large plutonium-producing reactors were operating in Hanford, Wash. Howe moved there to act as the Metallurgical Laboratory's liaison. During his long career, Howe served as director of nuclear research groups at General Electric in Schenectady, N.Y., and Atomic International in Los Angeles and later was Atomic's technical director in San Diego. He was also an advisor to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and taught at Cornell as well as Brown, and after his retirement, at UC San Diego.

Born on a farm near Groton, N.Y., Howe earned a bachelor's degree in science from Hobart College and a doctorate in chemistry from Brown. On June 13 in La Jolla, of complications after a fall. Dorothy Lee; Co-Starred In Comedy Films Dorothy Lee, 88, an actress popular in 1930s motion pictures starring the 249 UlerJIMWMiy wt50PiteiflH mJ fdter Rebate IReean i I njfJHBWlfTT mXM PACKARD 2000CS6 XEROX DOCUPRINT P8 LASER PRINTER Canon PC-745 PROFESSIONAL SERIES COLOR PRINTER Prints 12 ppm black10 ppm color Brilliant photo-quality color on any paper 1-Year Express Exchange Warranty 367-794 COPIER 10 cpm (letter) Prints 8 ppm 600 600 dpi resolution Exclusive 3-Year Overnight Exchange Warranty 250-sheet paper capacity -333-544 299.99 50 00 Mail-In Rebate 249 99 Includes starter toner cartridge 3-year warranty: 1-year on-site plus 2-year carry-In or exchange 329-176 599.99 50.00 Price Reduction 100.00 Mail-In Rebate 449.99 Source Code TITT in. 99240 1, tmmm ililmmiinuififUiiwitiiiii imitammmm 229E BubenkBM '1355W 190)1 St 2506VBC3mpoRl StrriVifcyCcOraiS Madera (Sm at the Plaza) tanm 5530 Reseda BM. (ButankiWI (BerenNnrierdt Western) (MOSWton) Cimgil(lTccra) GarinGardenGrrMeBidU Ihrtfito 19611 ParthereSt 0ann11151 183rd.u.

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She co-starred in 13 of the 21 RKO films made by Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, including "Girl Crazy" in 1932. Decades later, Lee wrote the foreword for Edward Watz's 1994 book "Wheeler and Woolsey: The Vaudeville Comic Duo and Their Films." Born Marjorie Elizabeth Millsap in Los Angeles, she began dancing in public at age 2 and by her teens was in vaudeville, billed as Dorothy Lee. When she was 18, Lee won a talent contest to perform with Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians and star opposite Waring in the musical "Syncopation." She made her motion picture debut in 1929 in the film version of that show, starring Wheeler. Lee made 28 films; the last, "Repent at Leisure," was in 1941. She appeared in the 1939 stage show "Twelve Crowded Hours" with Lucille Ball.

On June 24 in San Diego of respiratory failure. Keith F. Lister; San Diego Dally Transcript Publisher Keith F. Lister, 81, the publisher who expanded the San Diego Daily Transcript into an important business and financial newspaper. Lister, a former banker, bought the paper in 1972 and shaped it into a local version of the Wall Street Journal.

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