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By Compiled From Wire Service Dispatches With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The World; Edited By Laurent Belsie

February 28, 1983

Playwright Tennessee Williams, who passed on late last week, was considered one of the nation's greatest playwrights. The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner will be remembered for such powerful dramas as ''The Glass Menagerie,'' ''A Streetcar Named Desire,'' and ''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.''