dietz.usc-cse@UDel-Relay (12/30/82)
(From the LA Times) Rep. Jack Swigert Dies of Cancer at 51 (AP) Rep.-elect Jack Swigert (R-Colo.) died Monday night of cancer at the Lombardi Cancer Institute of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., his office announced. He was 51. Swigert, a former Apollo 13 astronaut, was elected Nov. 2 to represent Colorado's new 6th District. He was to have been sworn in Jan. 3. Before the election, Swigert said his doctors had diagnosed his condition as bone marrow cancer, which later spread to his lungs. June Weiss, his press secretary, said the immediate cause of Swigert's death was respiratory failure. Swigert had been hospitalized in Washington since Dec. 19, when he was flown to the Georgetown University hospital from his home in Littleton, Colo. He was being treated for the cancer and complications from its chemotherapy.