Exiled Romanian king, a pilot, has died

King Michael I of Romania, who ascended the throne once as a child, and once more as a teenager, who freed his country from Nazi domination late in World War II at age 22, and was later forced to flee by Communists who had taken power, died in Switzerland Dec. 5. He was 96, and had recently withdrawn from public life after a diagnosis of cancer, according to news reports.

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