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Craig, 57, has had a lively life in baseball since leaving a North Carolina farm for Brooklyn in 1955 to pitch in the first big league game he ever saw. He was a 20-game loser (twice) for Casey Stengel's fledgling Mets. Recently he coached Sparky Anderson's pitchers to a World Series championship in Detroit and revolutionized that staff and others with his proliferating invention, the split-finger fastball. Late in a summer of 100 losses, the Giants summoned Craig from retirement in 1985. "I've known many kinds of fun," he remembered last week, "but nothing like...
...since Charles Foster Kane's immortal "Rosebud" has a deathbed utterance caused such a stir. CIA Director William Casey, partly paralyzed and gravely ill following brain surgery, was in Washington's Georgetown University Hospital last winter when an unexpected visitor entered his room. It was Washington Post Reporter Bob Woodward, who had interviewed Casey off and on for four years and had somehow slipped through CIA security for one last encounter. So Woodward says in his new book, Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987 (Simon & Schuster; $21.95), relating that the interview lasted just four minutes and Casey...
...World Report somehow got hold of the galleys and, in addition to printing a story this week, issued a news release that enabled the networks and the Associated Press to air disclosures from the book last week. According to the reports, Woodward says he visited then CIA Director William Casey in the hospital before he died last May and asked him whether he had known all along about the diversion of funds from Iranian arms sales to the contras. "Casey nodded a frail yes." When asked why, Casey said, "I believed." Woodward says the CIA at one time used...
...under Casey launched at least a dozen covert operations around the world...
...agency had more than 25 spies in the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact nations as a result of Casey's determination to improve intelligence gathering...