New York Times On Orin-Eilbeck

Deborah Orin-Eilbeck, the Washington bureau chief and a columnist for The New York Post, died on Sunday at a hospital near her home in Manhattan. She was 59.

The cause was gastric cancer, said her husband, Neville Eilbeck.

Better known by her byline Deborah Orin, Ms. Orin-Eilbeck was named Washington bureau chief in 1988, but had covered four administrations since first being assigned there in 1980. She married Mr. Eilbeck, an Englishman, last August and added his name to her byline.