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10 months agoRichard Severo, Times Reporter in Internal Clash Over Book, Dies at 90
Richard Severo, a prizewinning reporter for The New York Times whose challenge to what he considered a punitive transfer by the newspaper's management became a cause celebre among journalists in the 1980s, died on June 12 at his home in Balmville, N.Y., in the Hudson Valley.He was 90.His wife, Emoke Edith de Papp, said the cause was complications of Parkinson's disease.