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When Marine Lieut. Colonel William Higgins became the top-ranking American officer in the United Nations' observer group in Lebanon in June 1987, he had just completed a two-year stint as one of two military assistants to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. He had been able to see almost every classified document that crossed Weinberger's desk. U.S. officials think Higgins was kidnaped simply because he was an American and not because of his background. But the fact that he had so recently served in a sensitive Pentagon job clearly increased the danger to Higgins once he fell into unfriendly...
...moved there in 1984. Educated at Rutgers University and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, he gave up a 25-year banking career in the late 1970s, after the breakup of his first marriage, to work as a shipping manager in Jidda, Saudi Arabia. Following a four-year stint as an employee of an oil cartel in London, Cicippio accepted the job at the American University in June 1984. "None of us wanted him to go, but he had made up his mind," said his brother...
BODEANS: HOME (Slash/Reprise). Brand New is the title of one of this album's best cuts, but BoDeans fans will be cheered to know that the band's still doing what it has always done best: focused, aggressive rock that doesn't stint on spirit...
...came after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident. She broadcast live reports from the damaged reactor -- borrowing a producer's tennis shoes so she could stand atop the microwave truck in the rain without slipping off -- and got her first major exposure on the CBS Evening News. After a stint covering the 1980 presidential campaign, she was assigned to the State Department, where she impressed her bosses with her hard work and excellent sources. Says former CBS News president Richard Salant: "I think she was the best State Department reporter we ever...
...assessment of possible damage, it was not clear whether Bloch's alleged work for the Soviets began while he was in Vienna, from 1980 to 1987, or when he served in Berlin, from 1970 to 1975. As the second-ranking diplomat in the Vienna embassy, including a ten-month stint as charge, or acting ambassador, Bloch had access to U.S. diplomatic traffic on East European and Soviet issues as well as worldwide regional reports. He was aware of CIA activities, if not the names of actual agents, in one of the world's most active intelligence arenas, the Austrian capital...