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DIED. Robert A. Lewis, 65, co-pilot of the B-29 Enola Gay on its August 1945 mission to drop the atom bomb over Hiroshima; of a heart attack; in Smithfield, Va. A test pilot of the then new B29, he was chosen because he was known to be cool under stress, though watching the blast he said, "My God, what have we done!" Lewis kept a private record of the flight, which he later sold for $37,000. "If I live a hundred years," he wrote, "I'll never quite get these few minutes out of my mind...
DIED. Oren Ritter Lewis, 80, outspoken, activist federal district judge whose Alexandria, Va., courtroom was always good theater and whose opinions were often controversial; of a heart attack; in Arlington, Va. Appointed to the federal bench by President Eisenhower in 1960, he regularly cut short questioning he found irrelevant, put questions himself, and pushed both sides with his familiar exhortation "Get on with it!" He rendered important school desegregation decisions; he consistently opposed 1960s peacenik protesters, saying, "I never let a deserter try the Viet Nam War"; and he ruled in 1978 that ex-CIA Agent Frank Snepp had violated...
Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.: "I could hardly leave today without issuing my own invitation to each of you to become involved in the joy of public service. The panoply of American democracy, contentious and colorful as it is, remains the best way to make life better and thus, to me, by far the best way to make a living. So I ask you to become partisans for democracy and to embrace change with all its uncertainty and all its potential for abuse. I ask you to manage it well...
...seven world leaders came, ostensibly, to thrash out differences in trade policy and currency rates. But the most important consensus emerging from the ninth annual economic summit in Williamsburg, Va., last week had nothing to do with economics at all. In the hall that once reverberated with Patrick Henry's revolutionary oratory, the U.S., with the stout help of the British, forged an agreement among the allies to support resolutely NATO's plan to deploy nuclear weapons in Western Europe this year if no arms agreement can be reached with the Soviets...