Milestones: Oct. 26, 1970

Died. Gordon Arnold Lonsdale (born Konan T. Molody), 48, convicted Soviet spy, whom the British exchanged for Businessman Greville Wynne in 1964; of an apparent heart attack in a Moscow suburb. Arrested in 1961 while posing as a Canadian businessman in London, Lonsdale was identified as the chief of operations of a spy ring in Britain. In 1965 he wrote a book, Spy, in which he bragged that he was also a communications aide for Colonel Rudolf Abel's famed ring in the U.S. during the 1950s.

Died. Adam Rapacki, 60, Polish Foreign Minister from...

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