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Mitchell Krauss Dies: CBS News Correspondent Wounded In Sadat Assassination Was 90

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Mitchell Krauss, a Middle East correspondent for CBS News who was wounded in the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, died on January 27 at Northern Dutchess Hospital in New York, near his home in Rhinebeck.

He was 90 and died from kidney failure.Krauss was the correspondent and the bureau chief in Cairo during a 25-year career at CBS News.

On October 6, 1981, he was covering a military parade and was near enough to the Egyptian leader to suffer a shrapnel wound to his leg in the grenade and automatic weapons attack that killed Sadat.One of only a few reporters on the scene, he was able to file an audio report that was broadcast later as part of a CBS Special Report on the assassination.

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