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CORRECTION PUBLISHED 04/10/04: The city where Janet Steiger died was incorrect in her obituary in this article. She died in Fort Myers, Fla., not Oshkosh, Wis.

Janet Steiger, 64, a congressman's widow appointed by four presidents to several posts including head of the Federal Trade Commission, died Saturday in Oshkosh, Wis. During her government service, she investigated the accident at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania and helped set postal rates. While FTC chairwoman, the Oshkosh native was instrumental in the first government actions against tobacco companies over the use of cartoon characters to target youths, said her son, Bill Steiger, an assistant to Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson. Steiger, a graduate of Lawrence University in Appleton, was a Fulbright scholar who studied medieval literature at the University of Reading in England. She married William A. Steiger in 1963 when the Republican represented Oshkosh in the state Assembly. He went on to represent Wisconsin's 6th District in the House of Representatives and died of a heart attack in 1978 at age 40.

Paul Atkinson, 58, who played guitar in the British invasion band the Zombies and later became a successful music industry executive who signed such acts as ABBA, died Thursday in Los Angeles, where he had lived for the past 20 years. Born in Cuffley, England, he started his music career with the Zombies, which had hits in the 1960s with 'She's Not There,' 'Tell Her No' and 'Time of the Season.' Later, he went on to work as an artists and repertoire executive, signing acts including ABBA, Bruce Hornsby, Mr. Mister, Michael Penn, Judas Priest and Patty Smyth. In January, Atkinson received the Recording Academy's President's Merit Award at a tribute and benefit concert in his honor at the House of Blues in Los Angeles. The event included a reunion of the Zombies.

Berle Kanseah, 65, a Mescalero Apache advocate of native language preservation who consulted on the Ron Howard film 'The Missing,' died of cancer Monday in Ruidoso, N.M. He was the grandson of Jasper Kanseah, the youngest warrior in the Naiche-Geronimo band of Chiricahua Apaches, who was with Geronimo and Naiche when they surrendered to the Army in 1886 and was sent with them to Florida. For 'The Missing,' Kanseah was a technical adviser who helped actor Tommy Lee Jones learn the Chiricahua language. Only about 300 people still speak it, according to Apache scholars. Producer Daniel Ostroff noted that photographer Edward Curtis, who died in 1952, had left a visual encyclopedia of the American Indian. With Kanseah's death, Ostroff said, 'we have lost a whole library,' said.

Luke Williams, 80, who with his brother Chuck in 1950 invented the time and temperature sign common on office buildings throughout the world, died Monday in Spokane, Wash. The first was placed on a Seattle-First National Bank building in Spokane. They formed American Sign and Indicator in 1951. By 1980 sales had reached $46 million, and they made the giant scoreboard for the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. He sold the company to the Brae Corp. of San Francisco in 1983.

Pierre Koenig, 78, whose sleek glass-and-steel houses became emblems of the progressive values of Postwar suburbia, died of leukemia Sunday in Los Angeles. As one of a group of architects that included Charles and Ray Eames, Raphael Soriano and Craig Ellwood, Koenig was a key figure in a generation that helped make Los Angeles one of the great laboratories of 20th century architecture. His reputation in large part rests on the creation of two houses - Case Study House .21 and .22 - that were completed in 1959 and 1960 as part of an ambitious program that sought to introduce the values of Modernist architecture to suburbia. Clean abstract compositions, with a powerful relationship to their natural context, they exist as enduring emblems to Cold War America's faith in technological progress and its transformative powers. Most of Koenig's later years were spent teaching. 'He remained an ardent believer in industrial materials and prefabricated systems - the idea that life could be improved through architecture,' said Elizabeth Smith, curator of the 1989 Case Study show at Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art.