ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Wednesday, March 27, 1996              TAG: 9603270064
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL   PAGE: A-1  EDITION: METRO 
                                             TYPE: NEWS OBIT 


LIFE OF PUBLIC SERVICE ENDS


LENGTH: Short :   19 lines
ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO:  AP file/1995. Edmund Muskie, former secretary of state, 

three-term state legislator in his native Maine, twice governor of

the state, U.S. senator for 22 years, Democratic nominee for vice

president in 1968 and candidate for president in 1972, died Tuesday.

Story on A4. color.

by CNB