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...Apparently, he came back a day early and was among those sleeping in the doomed building. Late last week, his family was told he had died. Last week, too, TIME received a letter from a colleague of Crudale's in Beirut, Lance Corporal J.B. Owen of Virginia Beach, Va. "With our job not yet finished," he wrote, "we must not leave this country in such a critical state. Marines never leave a job undone." Owen will not see that task completed. He also is among the confirmed dead in Beirut...
Awakened by the explosions, the American students at the True Blue campus of St. George's University School of Medicine did not know who was shooting at whom. "There was antiaircraft fire coming from the Cubans around the airport," said Harold Harvey, 22, of Beckley, W. Va. "Then I saw the paratroopers jumping. It was really thrilling to see, kind of like an old John Wayne movie, but I knew people were going to get killed." Student Stephen Renae of Point Pleasant, N.J., saw "planes diving and strafing at ground targets we couldn't see. The worst thing...
...hearing, as Willard looked on impassively, former Under Secretary of State George Ball assailed the directive as "an appalling document" and "an absurdity." Charged Ball: "This would require the establishment of a censorship bureaucracy far larger than anything known in our national experience." Charles Rowe, editor of the Fredericksburg (Va.) Free Lance-Star, noted that the clearance rules will enable future officials to review the proposed public statements of earlier ones and protested, "If an Administration can censor the comments and criticism of its predecessors, the potential for political mischief is frightening...
...boundless. One 14-year-old brags that he penetrated a computer belonging to a brokerage firm and erased a group of commodity trading accounts. Particularly vulnerable are the 1,200 computer systems that can be reached through a single telephone call to GTE Telenet, a network based in Vienna, Va. Last summer the FBI singled out for investigation a gang of Milwaukee-area youths who had used Telenet to enter a number of different systems, including unclassified Defense Department computers and a machine monitoring the treatment of cancer patients in a New York City hospital...
...immune from that interaction. In North Miami, Ira and Ruth Gordon coax their friends to shuffle through their memories. Says Ruth Gordon: "Every couple we've ever invited over to play the game has bought it the next day." Nancy Spencer, a devotee of the game from Clifton, Va., claims, "It's better than charades, and that's hard to beat." She adds, "It's only frustrating when the kids know more than you do." In Hollywood, where game playing is sometimes the most exigent art form, Trivial Pursuit and its cousin Silver Screen are monster...