Richard Phillips

The year was 1975 and Saigon was falling apart. A desperate colonel in the South Vietnamese army called his family of seven together. ''He told us he had a Claymore...

Jim Wright is employed again. At loose ends since his embarrassed resignation from Congress, the ex-House speaker from Texas has been hired by American Income Life Insurance Co.-of Texas, of...

For a fellow in jail, Charles Wilson is strangely happy. Ecstatic, even. While eating at taxpayers` expense in Conway, Ark., Wilson idly peeled away a game sticker attached to his...

Michigan`s two most prominent newlyweds, Gov. James Blanchard and the former Janet Fox, cap a weekend of romance Monday by walking the plank. They`ll join 60,000 people on the annual...

As fish tales go, Randy Lindquist has one to cash in on. Just the other day . . . Lindquist was deep-sea fishing off the coast of Maine when he...

It was testimony, not testimonials, that certified Leona Helmsley`s character. But Bantam Books loves her, nonetheless. Mere minutes after the dictatorial hotel queen`s conviction for tax evasion, Bantam okayed a...

One might say Tom Harmon is biting the hand that feeds him. As the new building inspector in Lake Ozark, Mo., Harmon was told to enforce the town`s ''dangerous buildings''...

Still living on the edge, New York subway gunman Bernhard Goetz must stay an extra two weeks in jail for insisting upon a close shave his way. The problem? Goetz...

It was a fine catch for Jayson Beute even if he mixed his metaphors. A sheriff`s deputy in southwestern Michigan, Beute used a catcher`s mitt in a fish bait shop...

Making obstetrical rounds in Ventura, Calif., is the story of twins Jake and Jesse Roller. The two were born Saturday, on the same date as twin uncles and a paternal...