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...business, the Privacy Act of 1974 prohibited federal agencies from exchanging data about private citizens without their consent. Yet the Administration, despite the protests of the A.C.L.U. and other watchdog groups, is planning to expand further its computer matching efforts to include families applying for college loans, veterans using VA hospitals and rural families asking the Farmers Home Administration for low-interest housing loans...
Never let it be said that the editorial staff of the Free Lance-Star (all 36 of them) eases into the day. By 7:30 a.m., Charles Rowe, the co-publisher of the Fredericksburg, Va., newspaper, is at his desk, perusing stories ready for that day's edition. Josiah Rowe, who shares the publishing chores with his brother, is reading his mail. Managing Editor Bob Baker is preparing for the 8:00 a.m. story conference, while Obituary Writer Eileen Mead is already fielding calls from those with sad news. And, oh, yes, one of the younger reporters, maybe Daryl Lease...
...more rural here, the winters are warmer, and there's more sun," Heclo said from the White Post, Va., home where he has lived for the past year while on sabbatical at George Mason...
Mike Kennedy was just a tyke in Clarksburg, W. Va., back then. The Navy didn't claim him until 1959, four years after Mighty Mo was mothballed in Bremerton, Wash. In fact, Kennedy never figured to serve a day on her. He had retired in 1979 and was working as a security guard in the federal court in San Diego when the phone rang on his birthday, Dec. 13, 1984. His wife Marilyn took the call and relayed the unexpected invitation from the Chief of Naval Operations. "You jumped on that like a buzzard on a dead cow," she told...
...Missouri as a seaman first class in 1946 when she carried the body of the wartime Turkish Ambassador to the U.S. back to Istanbul to be buried. Since then he's seen ports of call from Australia to Italy and been tattooed by the best in Norfolk, Va., Hong Kong, Yokohama and Pearl Harbor. With just over 40 years in service, Davidson isn't padding his pension. He can't improve on the 75% of his monthly base salary of $2,467.80 that's due him if he retires tomorrow. When the call from Washington reached him in 1983, asking...