By The Associated Press Story-Date: 04:06 a.m. PST Monday , November 17, 1997 ------------------------------------------------------------ By The Associated Press Kay "Kaibah" C. Bennett GALLUP, N.M. (AP) -- Kay "Kaibah" C. Bennett, an author and teacher who was the first woman to run for the presidency of the Navajo Nation, died Thursday. She was 77. Born on the Navajo reservation near Sheep Springs, Ms. Bennett ran for tribal president in 1990. Bennett wrote "Kaibah," a recollection of her Navajo girlhood; "A Navajo Saga," a family history during the mid-1880s; and "Keesh, the Navajo Indian Cat," a children's book. She served on the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial's board of directors from 1974 to 1982, supervised student teachers on the reservation from 1976 to 1984, and held jobs as teacher, interpreter and head of special education at the Phoenix Indian School from 1947 to 1952. Edna Folz MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Edna M. Folz, a journalist whose right-to-die case went to the U.S. Supreme Court, died Sunday, 18 days after doctors allowed the removal of a feeding tube that had kept her alive. She was 74. Ms. Folz, who had advanced Alzheimer's disease, died in her sleep, said Linda Miller, owner of Sylvia's Rest Haven in Marshfield. Betty Spahn, her sister's legal guardian, had waged a three-year court battle to have the tube removed. She said Ms. Folz told her decades ago she would rather die than live helplessly. The Wisconsin Supreme Court said in June that Ms. Folz must stay on the feeding tube and that she was not in a persistent vegetative state. It also ruled she never clearly said she objected to having extreme measures taken to save her life. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to take the case Nov. 3. But doctors had determined a few days earlier that Ms. Folz was in a vegetative state and withdrawn the tube. Ms. Folz, an award-winning journalist at The Evansville (Ind.) Press for 37 years, had been bedridden for years with Alzheimer's disease. A funeral has been tentatively scheduled for Saturday in Evansville. Ms. Folz is survived by a brother and two sisters. Stefan Lorant ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) -- Stefan Lorant, a journalist whose views landed him in a Nazi jail and a photographer who compiled pictorial histories of U.S. presidents, died Friday. He was 96. Born in Hungary, Lorant established himself at age 19 as a leading cameraman in Europe with his first film in Vienna, "The Life of Mozart." After making 14 films in Vienna and Berlin, he left the industry in 1925 and began writing for newspapers and magazines, soon becoming editor of a weekly in Berlin. With Adolf Hitler in power, Lorant was imprisoned in 1933 for his editorials criticizing Nazi politics. Hungarian journalists soon managed to get him released. In 1934, Lorant moved to Britain and published his first book, "I Was Hitler's Prisoner," which sold 1 million copies. In 1940, he settled in Massachusetts and became renowned for his pictorial biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Douglas MacArthur II WASHINGTON (AP) -- Douglas MacArthur II, whose long Foreign Service career included tours as ambassadors to four nations, died Saturday after a stroke and heart attack. He was 88. The nephew and namesake of the famous five-star Army general, MacArthur joined the State Department's foreign service in 1935. He was named a career ambassador, the service's highest rank, in 1966 and retired in 1972 after three years as U.S. ambassador to Iran, where he escaped a kidnap attempt in 1970. He held the rank of department counselor from 1953 to 1956, coordinating international conferences and working on the Austrian state treaty. He was ambassador to Japan from 1956 to 1961 and also headed the U.S. missions to Belgium and Austria. He was assistant secretary of state for congressional relations from 1965 to 1967. Georges Marchais PARIS (AP) -- Georges Marchais, a longtime French Communist Party leader who adhered to Moscow's line even as other European communists drew away, died Sunday. He was 77. Marchais, son of a coal miner and himself a former metallurgy worker, retired as first secretary of the Communist Party in January 1994. He was replaced by the more moderate Robert Hue, who has sought to adapt the party to the post-Cold War era. Marchais had led the party since 1972, keeping it tightly aligned with Moscow until then-Soviet President Mikhael Gorbachev embarked on perestroika. That led Marchais to grudgingly distance himself from the Soviet leader, even as other European communists hailed Gorbachev for his liberal reforms. Nick Nicholas NEW YORK (AP) -- "Big" Nick Nicholas, a saxophonist who played with many great postwar jazz musicians, died Oct. 29. He was 75. Nicholas was a tenor saxophonist and singer who worked with some of the great formative bands of the 1940s, including those led by Earl Hines, Dizzy Gillespie and Lucky Millinder. While in Gillespie's band, Nicholas contributed a 16-bar solo on the African-Cuban jazz piece "Manteca" in 1947. It is considered one of the most important solos in jazz. So impressed was a young John Coltrane that he recorded an original piece called "Big Nick" on the 1962 album "Duke Ellington and John Coltrane." Born George Walker Nicholas in Lansing, Mich., Nicholas said he earned his nickname at age 10 because of his big build and large features. By the 1980s, Nicholas made frequent appearances as a band leader in New York City and released the first album under his own name in 1983. Carlos Surinach NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Carlos Surinach, a prolific Spanish-born composer influenced by the rhythms and melody of flamenco, died Wednesday. He was 82. Perhaps best known for his ballet scores, Surinach also composed for orchestra, chorus, chamber ensembles and voice. His music took the stage with dance from choreographers Martha Graham, Pilar Rioja and Paul Taylor. The Joffrey Ballet toured the Soviet Union with his "Feast of Ashes" in 1963. After becoming an American citizen in 1959, Surinach taught composition at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh and at Queens College during the next two decades. Larry K. Shinoda NOVI, Mich. (AP) -- Larry K. Shinoda, an automotive and graphic designer credited with the design of the 1968 Corvette Stingray and the Boss 302 Mustang, died Thursday. He was 67. A cause of death was not released. Shinoda was diabetic and had been on dialysis since last year when he suffered kidney failure, said his sister, Grace Shinoda Nakamura. He began working at Ford Motor Co. in the 1960s before moving to General Motors Corp. Nguyen Xien HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- The former secretary-general of Vietnam's now-defunct Socialist Party, Nguyen Xien, has died. He was 91. In a brief tribute to Xien, the official Vietnam News Agency said today that he had served the country as a revolutionary, a government official and ideologue through much of this century. It said he died earlier this month in a Hanoi hospital after a lengthy illness Xien served as the leader of the Socialist Party of Vietnam until it was dissolved and absorbed by the Communist Party during the 1980s. The Socialist Party was established as a division of the Communist Party in 1941 to allow non-communists to participate in Vietnam's war against French colonial rule and Japan's World War II occupation. ------------------------------------------------------------