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Ex-Pentagon Official Paul Nitze, 97, Dies Wednesday October 20, 2004 5:46 PM By BARRY SCHWEID AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Paul H. Nitze, a senior arms control adviser in the Reagan administration who served in various national security roles under eight presidents, is dead at 97. Reports of his death late Tuesday were confirmed by the Navy Department, which Nitze once headed. His long career, which began with success on Wall Street as a young investment banker, was capped last April in Bath, Maine, where Nitze witnessed from a wheelchair the christening of a warship bearing his name. He...

Former arms control negotiator for Reagan, dead at 97 Paul Nitze, a former top Pentagon official who served as the senior arms control adviser to president Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, died at the age of 97, the US military announced Wednesday. A spokesman for the US Navy -- a branch that Nitze once headed -- confirmed his death. Nitze served in several top government posts, including secretary of the navy 1963-67 and deputy secretary of defense 1967-69. Nitze headed the US arms negotiationg team with the Soviet Union in the 1980s under Reagan. The Harvard graduate worked for many...