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...late August afternoon when the Iraqi exile got a call on his cell phone. Over the crackling line, the Iraqi says, the caller identified himself as Larry Franklin, an analyst for the Defense Department in Washington. Franklin rattled off a series of questions. He wanted to know if the Iraqi, who had spent the past decade working with Ahmad Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress (I.N.C.), could recall whether anyone at the I.N.C. had discussed the U.S.'s ability to intercept and decode Iran's secret communications. The Iraqi, who knew Franklin's name but had never met him, was startled...
...DIED. BILLY DAVIS, 72, singer-songwriter turned advertising executive best known for writing the '70s corporate anthem I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke; after a long illness; in New Rochelle, New York. Under the name Tyran Carlo, the Detroit native wrote R&B hits for Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye and James Brown in the 1950s and '60s. In 1968 he moved to New York City to join the McCann Erickson ad agency, where he came up with the 1971 Coke theme song, which later became a pop hit. DIED. BOB EVANS, 77, computer scientist whose work...
...know why there was a question mark in Klein's title phrase "America Divided?" I have been around since the Franklin Roosevelt Administration and have never seen anything like the divisions today. The public reaction to the McCarthy witch hunts in the 1950s, the 1954 court decision on separate-but-equal schooling, the 1964 civil rights legislation and the 1974 Watergate affair did not exhibit the deep schisms apparent in the U.S. today. The divisions are the worst since the Civil War. RALPH CRAIG Amherst, Mass...
Rumsfeld's problems seemed to mount over the weekend with reports that the FBI is investigating Larry Franklin, a Defense Department analyst, for allegedly passing classified information to Israel...
...native and former Broadway actor made his mark in the 1960s directing such gritty TV series as The Defenders and East Side/West Side and then began making TV films, including Sybil, starring Sally Field. He won a 1976 Emmy for a TV mini-series about the Roosevelts, Eleanor and Franklin, and another the next year for Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years...