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Article: Sometimes controversial president of Polish American Congress dies
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- March 23, 2005
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DON BABWIN, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
03-23-2005
Dateline: CHICAGO
Edward Moskal, who assisted scores of people in the United States and Poland through his leadership of the Polish American Congress, but who was also criticized for what some viewed as anti-Jewish comments, died Tuesday. He was 80.
Moskal died in his Chicago home and his body was found by his wife of 57 years, Wanda, said the couple's daughter, Pamela Komorowski. He died of natural causes, Komorowski said, but she declined to elaborate.
Since 1988, Moskal was national president of the Polish American Congress, an umbrella organization of many Polish American fraternal, veteran, cultural and other types of groups ...