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Article: Charles Sternberg, headed International Rescue Committee, dies at 91
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- AP Worldstream
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- January 18, 2003
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Dateline: NEW YORK
Charles Sternberg, who fled Nazi persecution and went on to head the
largest private American refugee assistance organization, has died.
He was 91.
Sternberg was executive director of the International Rescue Committee
from 1965 to 1985. Under his stewardship, the organization's budget
rose from $1.2 million to $22.1 million.
The group has helped feed, shelter and resettle millions of refugees
around the world, from Cuba and Latin American to Southeast Asia,
the former Soviet bloc, and Africa.
Sternberg, who died Thursday, was born in 1911 in Moravia, which was ...