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...White House was informed at least two weeks ago that it was unlikely Casey would return to work, and since then a search for a possible successor has been under way, ABC said...
Deputy Director Robert Gates has been running the CIA in Casey's absence, but is not considered a leading candidate to replace him, ABC said...
...YORK--CIA Director William Casey, who underwent surgery last month for removal of a brain tumor, is unable to speak, walk or control the right side of his body, according to ABC News...
...abecedarians, people who are learning the alphabet. This season they and their families are in luck: three ABC books offer a bright amalgam of sophistication and simplicity. In Pigs from A to Z (Houghton Mifflin; $15.95), Arthur Geisert's suite of copper etchings follows siblings with curly tails and mischievous minds as they construct a wolfproof tree house by the letters. En route, the illustrator-author ingeniously employs words that describe his book (eerie, ideal, spectacular) and performs the hardest task in children's literature: enlightening with surprises...
...other volumes share the same aim. Florence Cassen Mayers' red ABC (Abrams; $9.95) uses objects in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston: D is for a Renoir dancer; N is for an Audubon nest; V is for a Degas violinist. Mayers also offers a matching blue volume (Abrams; $9.95), with works from the Museum of Modern Art in New York: F is for a Jasper Johns flag; N is for a starry night by Van Gogh; G is for an appropriate goat by Pablo Picasso. After all, he was the artist who said it took him a lifetime...