Nicholas Daniloff, 89, dies; reporter’s arrest in Moscow ignited a firestorm

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Nicholas Daniloff, an American news correspondent whose 1986 arrest in Moscow on trumped-up espionage charges ignited a political firestorm in the United States and an international crisis in the latter stages of the Cold War, died on Thursday, Oct. 17, at an assisted living facility in Cambridge, Mass. He was 89.

His daughter, Miranda Daniloff Mancusi, confirmed the death.

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