thehowling
02-10-2010, 04:12 PM
Former U.S. Representative Charlie Wilson, the swashbuckling Texan chronicled in film for helping secure billions of dollars to fund covert U.S. operations against the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s, died on Wednesday of cardiac arrest (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61960B20100210). He was 76.