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Show Sunday, August 19, 2007 DAILY HERALD AS Michael K. Deaver, adviser and image i, dies - Douglass . . . K. V Daniel & THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - 7 Michael K. Deader, a close adviser to : Ronald Reagan who directed the president's picturesque and symbdic public appearances, died Saturday. He was 69. Deaver, who had pancreatic cancer; died at his home in Bethesda, Mi, according to a statement from the Deaver . family that was issued by Edek U v, ' v. man, the public relations firm Nv'"' Jf ' he senved as vice chairman, Deaver was celebrated and 4 . scorned as an expert at media manipulation for focusing on how the president looked as much as what the president said Reagans chief choreographer for public events, Deaver protected the commander in chiefs image and enhanced it with a flair for choosing just . the right settings, poses and camera angles. Tve always said the only thing I did is light him well,' Deaver told the Los Angeles JJCOTTAmEWHITEAMOciMedPrM Times in 2001. My job was filling up the space around the Former presidential aide MkhaellL Deaver speakf to reporters head. I didn't make Ronald outside his office in Washington after he was indicted ' Reagan. Ronald Reagan made on perjury charges in March 1987. Deaver, one of Ronald me." - . Reagan's closest advisers died Saturday. He was 69. Deavers own image suffered a setback in 1987. He was convicted on three of five ing Reagan in poses and setDavid Gergen, White House counts of perjury stemming tings that conveyed visually the. communications director for from statements to acongrep- - message of the moment Presk Reagan, had an office next ' skmal subcommittee and a dential news conferences were door to Denver's. "He wasa a rarity, which suited an actor-- master of political theater in federal grand jury investigatwho was at his the best sense of that phrase. ing his lobbying activities with tumed-pplilidabest when using a script. Some people denigrate po-administration officials. ' litical theater, but in truth its DeaVer blamed alcoholism Meese, in a telephone infor lapses in memory and terview with The Associated been essential.to presidents," judgment. He was sentenced i Press from Ms Virginia home, Gergen said in a telephone in--, r. said Deaver had great imagi-- . terview. to three years probation and fined $100,000 as well as or"He brought an imagination nation, great innovation. Public relations was his oband an eye and a sense of the dered to perform 1.500 hours, of public service. , vious forte, and he did a very country to the presidency," he When the subject of a par- said. "The choreography of the good job of it throughout his don surfaced in Reagans final life," Meese said. "Mike had an president is more important than some people think." days in office in 1989, the presi-de- amazing way to understand noted that Deaver had "Mike did not think it was all how people would respond, indicated he Would not accept and he had a great way of packaging. You had to stage it . helping Ronald Reagan get his one, according to Reagan's right, but you had to have the philosophy, the set of ideas to . message across to the public." diary. v. make it au work, said Gergen, A spokesman for President Dealer's family said in the , who now teaches at Harvard statement Saturday that he Bush, Gordon Johndroe, said Deaver "knew the importance Universitys John F. Kennedy fought his cancer "with the School of Government. courage, grace and good spirit in Our democracy of commu-- . Deaver was born April 11, that h carried throughout his nicating with the American life. 1938, in Bakersfield. Calif, the the end, lie stood as people and he will be missed." .' Denver's son of a Shell Oil Co. distributhe model of a man who not greatest skill " in life loved what were tor, He played piano in bars but lived "was life, arranging only ' while studying political science known as good visuals teleright, one (by at a time, ; at San Jose State College. He vised events or scenes that Former first lady Nancy ;:. received his bachelor's degree would leave a powerful sym- Reagan said in a statement : that Deaver was the closest of bolic image in peoples minds, in 196a friends to both Ronnie and me Nancy Reagan recalled in her He worked for IBM and served in the Air Force. Later, in many ways, and he was like memoir, My Turn. a son to Ronnie. She added,: , ' One example w?s Reagan's it was Deavers interest in visit to the beaches of Norman- politics that led him to the We tnef great challenges Santa daa County Republican together. . I will miss Mike ' dy, in France, tocommento-- . rate the 40th anniversary of Party. Hired as its executive diterribly." Deaver brought a public rethe Allied invasion of Europe rector, he soon was organizing lations background and a long r during World War II. Deaver. political campaigns for GOP . candidates. -association with Reagan to his arranged for Reagan to ap-- . Deaver's work on behalf of work as White House deputy pear on a cliff overlooking the the Reagans began when he v chief of staff from English Channel and address y He ami top Reagan advisers. veterans, which yielded joined the gubernatorial staff in Edwin Meese III and James A-- . ' dramatic video and still images Sacramento following Reagans election in .1966. He became Baker III were known as "the , of the president; a detailoriented aide focused Mistakes could be costly, troika that, in effect, managed on helping the governor run a' the presidency though. ; smooth day today schedule. Deaver, however, was , Deaver chose a German milDeaver formed his own more with Reagan's itary cemetery near Bit burg for while '.. company after Reagan left the to also his He wreath than a lay policies. Reagan image state capital the former govcm a visit. To the presidents Was responsible for the presembarrassment, the cemetery, ernor and presidential aspirant ident's schedule and security was his chief client i and then and served as a liaison for any' turned out to contain the ' graves of 49 members of Adolf joined Reagan Washington family matters. Hitler's elite SS troops: Reagan after his 1980 election. To exert as much control as refused to drop the appearance Among the presidents advispossible, Deaver steered the Deaver was the closest to of in his schedule . ers, from from spite reporters president away when he could, instead arrang- - withering criticism. Nancy Reagan. , r- 4 M - . ;.1 i'S'-r'V.-i 'rfr: ; "... - ' . I 4 i . tUHUXmnua XU a flooded coal mine in Xintai, a city in east China's Shandong province Saturday. A flash flood triggered by heavy rains poured into the coal mine Friday. . . 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The director of China's industrial safety agency, U Yizhong, ordered emergency Rescucrews to try every means to XINTAI, China ers raced Saturday to pump rescue the trapped miners, the agency repealed. water out of two coal mines : An employee who answered by a river in eastern China, where the phone at the national mine 181 miners were missing and safety ageiuy said he had no feared dead. additional information and .. Water levels were rising, refused to give his name. Calls work areas were submerged to the Shandong mine agency and the miners "had only slim were not answered. Storms that swept through .. chances of survival," the official Xinhua News Agency the region on. Friday and reported, citing Wang Ziqi, di-- Saturday dumped more than rector of Shandong provinces 9 inches of rain, Xinhua said.- coal mine safety agency. Some 2,000 soldiers, police ' Crews installed pipes and and miners were working Satfive highspeed pumps in the urday to dose the gap mines in this town southeast . in the Wen dike, the agency, of Beijing, Xinhua reported. reported. The water was 6 12 There was no word on wheth- feet deep at the breech, the er there were signs of life. ;. report said. ..: The Huayuan Mining Co. Sate television showed mine flooded Friday afternoon work crews dumping sacks of earth and derelict trucks and when the Wen River burst a buses into the gap.. dike, sending water pouring into a shaft and trapping 172 - Late Saturday, emergency ' ' miners, according to state me- : vehicles from China's para- dia reports. .. military People's Armed Police Nine mort miners were surrounded the Huayuan . . trapped when water poured . mine, in a region where the v into the nearby Minggong terrain is pockmarked with Coal Mine on Friday evening, , the mouths of scares of mines. Police blocked surrounding according to Xinhua. It was roads and ordered reporters not clear whether the second flood was due to the same dike for local Chinese media to leave the area in an effort to break, . THE . nt Charles Hutzler . . |