The Man Who Stopped the Soviets in Afghanistan is Dead
Former U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson, a hard-partying Democrat who played a key role in the United States’ covert war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, has died. He was 76.
Wilson was taken to Memorial Medical Center-Lufkin after he started having difficulty breathing while attending a meeting in the eastern Texas town where he lived, said hospital spokeswoman Yana Ogletree.
Wilson, who had a heart transplant in 2007 in Houston, was pronounced dead on arrival, and the preliminary cause of death was cardiopulmonary arrest, Ogletree said. Houston doctors had told Wilson, who suffered from cardiomyopathy, a disease that causes an enlarged and weakened heart, that he would likely die without a transplant.
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