Kurt Luedtke, Former Detroit Free Press Editor and Oscar-Winning Screenwriter, Dies at 80

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Kurt Luedtke, the former Detroit Free Press executive editor who went on to win an Academy Award for his "Out of Africa" screenplay, has died. He was 80. 

Luedtke, after a long illness, died Sunday at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, his wife confirmed. 

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