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James M. Wilson Jr., 91, a career diplomat who established the State Department's human rights program and became its first coordinator, died Nov. 15 at Ingleside at Rock Creek retirement community in Washington. He had heart disease.
Patricia C. Siemien, 84, an assistant to speechwriters in the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon White Houses and who later worked for the U.S. Information Agency, died Nov. 1 at Suburban Hospital. She had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.