Ex-Carter Aide Dies in Plunge From Univ. of Michigan Tower
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A former Carter Administration official who also served as a University of Michigan regent plunged to her death today from the top floor of a clock tower on the campus, police said.
Sarah Goddard Power, 52, fell to the concrete below from a window on the eighth floor of the 212-foot-tall Burton Memorial Tower, the highest floor to which the public has access, police said.
A witness reported seeing Power sitting backward in a window and then pushing off, fire Lt. William Koernke said. No note was found, police said.
Power had been a regent since 1975. In 1980, then-President Jimmy Carter named her to the position of deputy assistant secretary for human rights and social affairs.
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