Deaths elsewhere

August 19, 2008 at 4:10AM

Jack Landau, 74, a founder of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, died Aug. 9 of complications from emphysema at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington County. He was a longtime Falls Church, Va., resident. The committee, a Washington-based legal defense and research center for reporters, was created in 1970, when the nation's news media were facing an increasing number of government subpoenas demanding that reporters name confidential sources.

During his tenure as executive director of the Reporters Committee from 1970 to 1985, the organization filed suit for access to more than 40 million White House documents and tapes held by former President Nixon, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's official telephone transcripts and FBI arrest records.

Robert Beck, who did incisive early work on using radioactive materials for medical imaging, died on Aug. 6 in Chicago. He was 80.

James Hoyt, one of four U.S. soldiers who discovered Nazi Germany's Buchenwald concentration camp as World War II neared its end, died Monday in Oxford, Iowa. He was 83. Hoyt served in the Army's 6th Armored Division, earning a Bronze Star. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge, the bloodiest battle fought by U.S. troops in World War II.

Dr. Eva Reich, daughter of Dr. Wilhelm Reich and lecturer on the controversial work on orgonomy that he pioneered more than a half century ago, died Sunday in Hancock, Maine. She was 84. Eva Reich, a native of Vienna who moved to the United States in 1938, participated in many of her father's controversial experiments. Wilhelm Reich, a psychiatrist, died in prison in 1957 after his conviction for ignoring an injunction that outlawed devices he developed to accumulate energy associated with sexual orgasm.

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