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DIED. DONALD REGAN, 84, former head of Merrill Lynch who left to become Ronald Reagan's Treasury Secretary and then chief of staff; of cancer; in Williamsburg, Va. The burly exMarine spent 35 years at Merrill Lynch before joining the Reagan team, where he was a prime mover behind the landmark 1986 tax reforms. When he became chief of staff, he ran into trouble; the Iran-contra scandal blew up on his watch, and he tangled with the First Lady, who helped speed his ouster after a year. He retaliated with a memoir, For the Record, that disclosed Nancy...
...DIED. Donald Regan, 84, former U.S. Treasury Secretary and White House chief of staff; in Williamsburg, Virginia. Forced to resign in 1987 because of the Iran-contra scandal, Regan, who had previously headed Merrill Lynch, was the driving force behind the Ronald Reagan Administration's tax cuts and downsizing of government. After his resignation, Regan wrote an autobiography, which described his frequent clashes with First Lady Nancy Reagan and revealed her consultations with astrologers...
...besides the U.S. has the ability and the guts to stand up to the dictators of the world? Were it not for Americans' willingness to fight for freedom, the world would be thrown into total chaos. America is the last great hope for freedom around the globe. WALLACE HALCOMB Williamsburg...
Military commandos who join the CIA full time are sent to the "farm," the agency's Camp Peary training center, located on 9,000 heavily wooded acres surrounded by a barbed-wire-topped fence near Williamsburg, Va. There the soldiers go through the yearlong course that all new CIA case officers must take to learn such skills of the trade as infiltrating hostile countries, communicating in codes, retrieving messages from dead drops and recruiting foreign agents to spy for the U.S. The CIA wants its paramilitary officers to be able to steal secrets as well as blow up bridges. John...
...Williamsburg: Worried that your kids think you're getting a bit, well, old? Hop the L train to Brooklyn. Stroll through the concrete maze of Williamsburg's industrial chic neighborhoods and take in the native culture, a bizarre mix of second-generation immigrants and would-be artists/DJ's/depressives who just couldn't stomach the gentrification of the East Village (they were bringing in supermarkets...