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DIED. Guy Gabaldon, 80, who as an 18-year-old Marine in World War II earned the Navy Cross for persuading more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers and civilians to surrender during the Battle of Saipan, a feat depicted in the 1960 movie Hell to Eternity; in Old Town, Fla. Relying on adrenaline and a few Japanese phrases, Gabaldon convinced his enemies that the alternative to surrendering with dignity was a more violent capture by awaiting U.S. forces. "I must have seen too many John Wayne movies," he later wrote. "Because what I was doing was suicidal...
...some people TV and the Internet are just wastes of time. For DIANA GABALDON they were the touchstones of a whole new career. Having gained a Ph.D. in ecology and worked for 12 years as a scientist, Gabaldon, inspired by an episode of Dr. Who (the British Star Trek), started writing what she calls "chunks" about time travel, ancient Scotland and sex. "I posted some of it on CompuServe to win an argument," says Gabaldon. "And people said, 'This is wonderful. What is it?' And I said, 'I don't know.' "Eight years later, she's still writing chunks, which...
From his bunker, West Point Graduate Somoza, whose favorite pastime is watching war movies, called for more mercenaries. Newspaper ads suddenly appeared in the U.S. Southwest: "ExMarine combat veterans needed to fight Communist takeover in Central America." An Albuquerque recruiter, Guy Gabaldon, quickly signed up his quota of 100 men and asked Managua for permission to enroll more. Somoza also ordered up his own National Guard reserves. Reportedly, he did so with reluctance because of suspicions that they might not otherwise remain loyal and turn over arms to the rebels. In any case, Somoza needed the extra help. His regular...
...terrorists identified themselves as part of a little-known leftist movement named the Argimiro Gabaldon Revolutionary Command. Instead of asking for a cash ransom, they demanded that Owens-Illinois 1) pay each of its 1,600 Venezuelan employees $116 as compensation for its "exploitation"; 2) distribute 18,000 packages of food to needy families; and 3) buy space in Venezuelan and foreign newspapers for a lengthy manifesto, written by the extremists, denouncing the company and the Caracas government. Otherwise, they implied, Niehous would be killed...
...campaign got started almost by chance. In the spring of 1945, Venezuela's chief malaria expert, young Arnoldo Gabaldon, was in Washington for a Pan-American health conference. At lunch one day, Dr. James Stevens (now dean of the Harvard School of Public Health) told him what DDT was doing for the Army in the southwest Pacific. Gabaldon was "terribly excited...