Richard L. Armitage, 79, Dies; State Department Official in a Turbulent Era
Richard L. Armitage, who served as the No. 2 official at the State Department from 2001 to 2005, during the turbulent era of the 9/11 attacks and the start of America’s retaliatory wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, died on Sunday. He was 79. The cause was a pulmonary embolism, Armitage International, a consulting company that…