Former US defense secretary Frank Carlucci dies at 87

YEREVAN, JUNE 5, ARMENPRESS. Frank C. Carlucci III, a soft-spoken but hard-driving crisis manager for four presidents and whose reputation as a tamer of federal bureaucracies led to stints as secretary of defense, national security adviser and deputy CIA director, died June3 at his home in McLean, Va, Washington Post reports.

He was 87.

The cause was complications from Parkinson’s disease, said a family friend, Susan Davis.

He wasUnited States Secretary of Defensefrom 1987 to 1989 in the administration of PresidentRonald Reagan.

Carlucci served in a variety of senior-level governmental positions, including Director of theOffice of Economic Opportunityin theRichard Nixon administration,Deputy Director of the CIAin theJimmy Carter administration, andDeputy Secretary of DefenseandNational Security Advisorin theReagan administration.

ENGLISH: Editor/Translator -Stepan Kocharyan