Tony, who traveled the world as a foreign correspondent, covering stories from sniper pits in Sarajevo and boats under shelling in Beirut harbor, who ducked rifle fire during the Romanian revolution and reported on two wars in the Persian Gulf, who hitchhiked across the Australian outback and followed the Pacific voyages of Captain James Cook from the Arctic Circle to the edge of the Antarctic ice shelf, had come home to die. He had been pronounced dead in the hospital where he was born, after collapsing a scant few blocks from the brown-shingled Victorian house in Chevy Chase in which he grew
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