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With those Words, delivered in a trembling Voice, President Pompidou announced on radio and television this morning that Charles de Gaulle died last night at his country re treat in Colombey‐les‐Deux Eglises. He would have been 80 years old Nov. 22.Death came to the wartime leader and peacetime Premier and President while he was playing a game of solitaire on a little card table in the quiet of his living room. Stricken with a heart attack, he col lapsed at 7:30 P.M. and is be lieved to have died of a ruptured aorta soon afterward.
