As the Levine cousins were meeting in November, one of our more famous cousins passed away. Herbert Okun, grandson of Harry Levine, clearly had a brilliant mind. As you can see, he served his country with honor.
Below is the beginning of the Washington Post obituary with the link for the complete article at the end, which you can paste into your browser.
HERBERT S. OKUN, U.S. PEACE NEGOTIATOR DURING THE BALKAN CONFLICT, DIES AT 80.
By Emily Langer, Washington Post, November 16, 2011
Herbert S. Okun, an American peace negotiator during the Balkan conflict of the early 1990s who took detailed notes that made him a key witness in the subsequent war crimes trials, died Nov. 8 at his home in New York.
He was 80 and had congestive heart failure, said his daughter Jennifer Harper.
Mr. Okun, the son of an emigrant from modern-day Belarus, was a Soviet specialist and spent much of his four-decade career confronting the politics of the Cold War. His most senior positions included ambassador to East Germany from 1980 to 1983 and deputy ambassador to the United Nations from 1985 to 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/herbert-s-okun-us-peace-negotiator-during-the-balkan-conflict-dies-at-80/2011/11/14/gIQAvtUoQN_story.html
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