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(Tuesday, September 17, 1996, 6:30 p.m. EDT) — Spiro Agnew, who was forced to resign as the 39th Vice President of the United States in 1973 when he pleaded no contest to a charge of income-tax evasion, died today at Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin, Maryland, after struggling with undiagnosed acute leukemia.

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Agnew, who was elected twice and served under President Richard Nixon (1969-1973), was 77 years old.