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Although Michael Dean, 43, never saw combat, he served two tours of duty in Indochina and "was always talking Viet Nam," said a neighbor in Lebanon, N.H. Last week Dean's obsession took a tragic turn. In an apparent murder- suicide pact with Caroline Hull, his lover and the widow of another vet, Dean killed himself, Hull and her three children. "We the veterans, widows and children of veterans are a forgotten group," said a suicide note. Coincidentally, a study just published by the New England Journal of Medicine reports that Viet Nam-era veterans are 86% more likely...
...things are nastier than family squabbles about money, and the Gettys' disputes were nastier than most. They began when J. Paul demanded his birthright from his father. After George F.'s death in 1930, the ambitious son set about loosening the widow's grip on her trust fund. When he succeeded, according to Biographer Lenzner, he boasted to an acquaintance, "I just fleeced my mother." His own will was engorged with codicils that treated beneficiaries like stocks on an exchange. One result was that suits and countersuits by Getty heirs cost more than $13 million in legal fees...
Praising the lack of violence during the first national celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in January, the civil rights leader's widow said that "this peaceful holiday was a great affirmation of non-violence...
...Thursday night, McGillis discussed the measures she took to prepare to play the role "Rachel" in Witness, the highly acclaimed film of Amish people caught up in a modern-day murder scam. She chose to live away from the film production company and stay with an Amish widow on a Pennsylvania farm...
...Marcos spoke, thousands of Filipinos streamed into the darkened streets, marching toward Camp Aguinaldo on the outskirts of Manila. The demonstrators, many of them carrying candles, were jubilant as they gathered outside the gates. "Cory! Cory!" they chanted, invoking the nickname of Opposition Leader Corazon Aquino, the slight, bespectacled widow of slain former Senator Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino, who had challenged Marcos for the presidency and lost in an election tainted by ballot stealing and bloodshed. Aquino was leading a rally in the central Philippine city of Cebu when the uprising occurred at Camp Aguinaldo. Supporters, fearful for her safety, promptly...