Hatem al-Husseini, 54, a Palestinian academic and leader in PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization, died of cancer yesterday in his native Jerusalem. He was a member of one of Jerusalem's most prominent Palestinian families and was president of Al-Quds University in Jerusalem and a member of the Palestine National Council, the Palestinian parliament in exile.
Rabbi Joshua Goldberg, 98, once the highest ranking Jewish chaplain in the U.S. Navy and a rabbi emeritus of the Astoria Center of Israel in Queens, died Saturday at his home in West Palm Beach, Fla. Rabbi Goldberg, who was born in Belarus, the son of a lumber merchant, came to the United States during World War I after deserting the Russian army. He became a chaplain in the Navy in 1942 and rose to the rank of captain in the 3rd Naval District in 1951, commanding all religious officers stationed in New York, Connecticut and part of New Jersey. He was the first rabbi to be commissioned a Navy chaplain and the first to be named chaplain of a Navy district.
Morris L. Simon, 83, co-founder and publisher of the Tullahoma (Tenn.) News, died Monday.
Dale Franklin, 54, who worked behind the scenes for the Grateful Dead and New Riders of the Purple Sage, died Saturday of cancer in Nashville, Tenn.
Pierre Dreyfus, 87, a former civil servant in France who built the state-owned Renault into one of Europe's leading automakers and became known as "Mr. Renault," died Sunday in Paris. He retired as Renault's president in 1975, was minister of industry under President Francois Mitterrand in 1981 and later an adviser to the president.
Charles Shirley, 74, an arranger for big bands and a respected counselor on alcoholism, died of a heart attack Friday at his home in Osprey, Fla. He wrote many arrangements and original scores for the big bands of Ray Anthony, Les Elgart, Stan Kenton and others, and for television series, including "The Arthur Godfrey Show" and "The Ted Mack Family Hour." He also arranged and conducted several all-star jazz sessions for RCA Victor Records. He was one of the first people in popular music to become deeply involved with the treatment of alcoholics and was the director of industrial programs for the Alcoholism Council of Greater New York.