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Mitchell Krauss, Longtime CBS News Correspondent, Dies at 90

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Mitchell Krauss, a Middle East correspondent for CBS News who was wounded in the 1981 assassination of Egypt president Anwar Sadat, died Jan.

27 of kidney failure in a hospital in Rhinebeck, New York. He was 90. Krauss served as a CBS News correspondent on television and radio from 1972-97 and appeared regularly on the CBS Evening News anchored by Walter Cronkite and then Dan Rather.

He was the news division's United Nations correspondent and an economic reporter in New York before being posted abroad. On Oct.

6, 1981, Krauss was covering a military parade in Cairo and was near enough to Sadat that he suffered a shrapnel wound to his leg in the grenade and automatic weapons attack that killed the Egyptian leader.

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