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Randolph set foot on American soil for the first time in 1980, when she arrived in Florida as a newlywed with her husband, an Asian-American airman who had been stationed in Haiti...
...familiar to evangelicals as a Kennedy's might be to the population at large. They know about her father's long absences on Crusades (she has described her mom Ruth as a "single mother"); how he introduced Anne, then 17, to 29-year-old college-sports star and airman-turned-dentist Danny Lotz; and how, after Lotz proposed on their third date, Billy intoned, "Anne, I think Danny Lotz is the man you're going to marry." Early miscarriages contributed to a period of depression, and even after her three children were born, Lotz sometimes felt trapped "in small talk...
...cost but also for its purported inability to handle bad weather (an earlier version of the plane had a coating that ran when exposed to rain). But there's nothing like a war to make advocates feel vindicated. Says Brigadier General Leroy Barnidge Jr., who runs Whiteman: "Even an airman with no stripes on his sleeves will say, 'We showed them.' Our guys landed in a driving rainstorm. We're the key ingredient in the bad weather over there." Pilots are delighted with their mount. Says one: "We don't worry about threats [such as plane-killing missiles], because...
DIED. COLEMAN YOUNG, 79, feisty five-term mayor of Detroit from 1974 to 1993; of respiratory and heart problems; in Detroit. The ex-World War II Tuskegee Airman became one of the first black mayors of a major U.S. city. Blunt and upbeat, he integrated the police and fire departments and tried to spur development of the waterfront with construction of the huge Renaissance Center. The Motor City, however, continued its decline during his tenure, as its population shrank and crime remained high...
...assault or disobeying orders. When an affair involves an officer messing around with a civilian marriage, officials tend to look the other way. If Marc and Gayla had been separated--as Marc had convinced Kelly they were--there would probably have been little intervention. But once Gayla, an enlisted airman, told a superior that an officer was trying to steal her husband, the Air Force had to go on alert...