William G. Hyland, 79, who helped shape U.S. foreign policy, particularly toward the Soviet Union, as a top-level bureaucrat and then became editor of the influential journal Foreign Affairs, died of an aneurysm on March 25 in Fairfax, Va.
Hyland, who lived in Vienna, Va., held high posts in the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department and the White House. President Gerald Ford named him to a top-level panel to coordinate the intelligence community, and President Jimmy Carter chose him to represent the National Security Council on an interagency committee to guide relations with the Soviet Union.
In a column in the New York Times in 1977, William Safire characterized Hyland as perhaps the most experienced presidential aide in determining what sensitive information goes into the Oval Office.
In the 1980s and '90s, as editor of Foreign Affairs, published by the Council on Foreign Affairs, he helped to further the journal's role in framing the establishment's discussion of international affairs.
Robert Fagles, 74, a professor emeritus at Princeton University whose bold, poetic translations of Homer and Virgil made him the most popular and esteemed classical scholar of his time, died Wednesday in Princeton of prostate cancer.
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