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...work after their death. In life Marvin Gaye fought Motown Records to release his classic, risk-taking soul album What's Going On just the way he wanted it. But in September, Motown will bring out a promising Gaye tribute CD on which other performers, from Madonna to Lisa Stansfield, offer renditions of his greatest songs, many drawn from that album. One track features Bono (of the Irish rock group U2), singing Save the Children as a haunting, elegiac duet with Gaye, whose vocals have been culled from an old recording...
...Rodney Stansfield Garden Grove, California...
...President has chosen a recently retired Air Force general, Michael Carns, to take over the CIA, according to Administration sources. An official announcement is expected later this week. If confirmed by the Senate, Carns would be the first military officer to run the agency since Navy Adm. Stansfield Turner held the post during the Carter Administration. TIME Washington correspondent Douglas Waller says the choice of Carns--a Harvard MBA, veteran of 200 combat missions in Vietnam and the Air Force's vice chief of staff until last year--took most Beltway insiders by surprise. But, Waller adds, Carns's reputation...
...President has chosen a recently retired Air Force general, Michael Carns, to take over the CIA, according to Administration sources. An official announcement is expected later this week. If confirmed by the Senate, Carns would be the first military officer to run the agency since Navy Adm. Stansfield Turner held the post during the Carter Administration. TIME Washington correspondent Douglas Waller says the choice of Carns--a Harvard MBA, veteran of 200 combat missions in Vietnam and the Air Force's vice chief of staff until last year--took most Beltway insiders by surprise. But, Waller adds, Carns's reputation...
...will be -- by the end of the decade -- down to about the size it was in the Carter Administration," Woolsey says. The man who ran the agency back then, however, doesn't see that as a problem. "I don't think we were shorthanded in my day,' says Stansfield Turner, CIA chief under President Carter. "I think ((President)) Reagan and ((his CIA chief William)) Casey bloated...