Former U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick dies

(New York -WABC, December 9, 2006) -- Former U.N. Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick has died. She was 80.

Kirkpatrick was a one-time Democrat who switched to the Republican party and became a heroine of conservatives.

Her death was announced Friday at the senior staff meeting of the U.S. mission to the United Nations. Spokesman Richard Grenell said that Ambassador John Bolton asked for a moment of silence.

A death announcement is also posted on the Web site of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative-oriented think tank here where she was a senior fellow.

Kirkpatrick's assistant, Andrea Harrington, said that she died in her sleep at home in Bethesda, Maryland. The cause of death was not immediately announced.

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