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...naming of the captain highlighted an agenda that also included the presentation of various awards to senior standouts. Fullback Jim Callinan, who rushed for a Harvard record 1054 yards this season, received the Frederick G. Crocker Award, symbolizing the team's most valuable player...
...assassination plan to the Reagan Administration last February. The official was present at a White House meeting chaired by Richard Allen, the National Security Adviser, and attended by, among others, the State Department's Nicholas Veliotes, Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, and Chester Crocker, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs. According to TIME's sources, the French official proposed that the killing be done by a group of Libyan exiles, trained and controlled by the French. The U.S. would not be directly involved. The official did, however, ask for a general expression of Administration support...
Both Veliotes and Crocker deny that the official made any formal proposal of covert action during their meeting with him, although they admit the discussion did involve Libya. Edwin Meese, counsellor to the President, would neither confirm nor deny there was a plan. Said he: "It would be totally inappropriate for me to comment." Declared State Department Spokesman Dean Fischer: "There was no discussion of a covert plot to overthrow Gaddafi, and the French official made no request for logistical or diplomatic assistance from...
Last month the Crocker National Bank solved Boe's cash problem. The mechanism: a reverse mortgage, meaning in essence a loan against the value of her house. For the next six years, she will receive a monthly payment of $746.50. Then at the end of that period, she can sell the home in order to pay back the money or she may be able to take out an additional loan, provided that her home has continued to increase in value. Says Boe happily: "I urgently needed the money. It's my home, and I love...