Byline: New York Times
Michael P.W. Stone, whose tenure as secretary of the Army was marked by a shrinking military, the debate over the role of women in combat and by the Persian Gulf war, died Thursday at his home in San Francisco. He was 69.
The cause was bone marrow cancer, his family said.
A California businessman active in the Republican Party and civic affairs, Stone was named the 15th secretary of the Army in 1989 by President George Bush. He served until 1993 while at the same time heading the Board of Directors of the Panama Canal Commission, which oversees canal operations.
At his death he was a director of BEI Electronics …
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