'Time' writer Burton dies in Bali

'Time' writer Burton dies in Bali

INDONESIA: Sandra Burton, a veteran journalist for Time and one of the first women to become a correspondent for the magazine, has died in Bali. She was 62.

Burton died of natural causes at her home in the capital of Denpasar, said Bali police spokesman Col. Pengasihan Gaut.

Burton joined Time in 1964 as a secretary and rose through the magazine's ranks, becoming a Los Angeles correspondent in 1970, said Howard Chua-eoan, the news director for Time.

Burton was named Hong Kong bureau chief in 1982, covering southeast Asia for the magazine. She was well known in the Philippines for her reporting on late dictator Ferdinand Marcos and the 1983 assassination of prominent opposition leader Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino. -- AP