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...crewman for 3 1/2 years, then moved to the reserves, where he was a tank commander. About 10 years ago, he joined a civil-affairs unit and worked for the rest of the time as a policeman or a summer ranger in national parks like the one in Gettysburg, Pa. He would have loved to work at Gettysburg full-time, says his ranger colleague Tim Sorber. But a National Park Service rule sets the maximum age for law-enforcement rangers at 35. Chris was already 45 when he started part-time, though he regularly passed the Army's physical-training...
Five days later, Coffin's body was back in Bethlehem, Pa., where Betsy was staying with her family. The funeral was held in the church where he and Betsy had renewed their wedding vows two years earlier. Two-thirds of the choir rearranged their schedules so they could come to sing, and the organist took the day off in order to be there to play. A college professor, a drama teacher and a fund manager helped the rector trim hedges; an elderly parishioner spent the night before the funeral freezing lemonade and ice rings because the day of the funeral...
...release—which came in 2000—Okhotin says he took an active role, organizing letter-writing campaigns and prayer vigils much like the ones which are currently being held for him. During the Atakov case, Okhotin also met Rep. Joseph R. Pitts, R-Pa., who looms large in the present efforts on his behalf...
Nadav Safran, an expert in Arab politics and controversial former director of Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies who resigned his post after accepting grants from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), died Saturday in State College, Pa. of cancer...
...survived by three daughters—Abigail of Montclair, N.J., Nina of Lemont, Pa. and Elizabeth of Portland, Ore.—several siblings in Israel, two grandchildren and ex-wife Anita Safran...