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Alba Ferry '42, a pioneer in the war effort, worked as an air raid warden in Cambridge...
...endured the media scrutiny that comes with a modern presidential campaign. Up to now, he has largely sculpted his own Horatio-Alger-hero-with-a-heart-of-gold image -- most notably by fostering On Wings of Eagles, Ken Follett's breathless account of a Perot-sponsored 1979 private commando raid to free two employees trapped in an Iranian jail at the height of the Khomeini revolution. A longtime aide questions whether Perot can handle media coverage that he can't control: "He's used to talking to business reporters. I don't believe Ross is going to put up with...
...AGENTS, INcluding a shotgun-toting swat team -- and TV camera crews, to be sure -- police chief Daryl Gates elatedly joined in the arrest of three suspects wanted for the beating of truck driver Reginald Denny at the outset of the Los Angeles riots. Leading the 2 a.m. raid into South Central with flak jacket and side arm, Gates personally collared one of the suspects, Damian Williams, whose nickname is "Football," and escorted him into a squad car. "Chief Gates, you're going!" Williams told the retiring police chief, according to what Gates recounted later. The chief must have thought...
...showboating raid, police also captured two other alleged members of a black gang called the 8-Trey Crips: Henry Watson, 27, known as "Kiki"; and Antoine Miller, 20, known as "Twan." A fourth man, Gary Williams, 33, suspected of lifting Denny's wallet, turned himself in. The 8-Trey Crips are alleged to be the turf lords of the intersection where millions of TV viewers -- in a grim mirror image of the videotaped Rodney King beating -- saw truck driver Denny stomped into unconsciousness. "The department was very, very concerned about our inability to reach Mr. Denny," Gates said after...
...hulking physique didn't fit such a low- profile diplomatic post. Friends there remember him as a "walking arsenal" of guns and knives. His real assignment reportedly was to work with the CIA in reconnoitering the American hostages in Lebanon and then, if feasible, to lead a daring raid that would rescue them...