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Charles W. Bailey, journalist and political novelist; at 82

By David W. Dunlap

 |  New York Times  

  January 06, 2012

NEW YORK - Charles W. Bailey - who edited The Minneapolis Tribune for most of the 1970s, when it was among the most polished of the nation’s midsize daily newspapers, after earlier winning renown as a coauthor of the best-selling Cold War novel “Seven Days in May’’ - died Tuesday in Englewood, N.J. He was 82.

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