History finds room to land

By Eleeza V. Agopian and Cindy Arora, The Orange County Register: RIVERSIDE – The Army colonel was eating dinner with his family in his Virginia home, dreading the shrill sound of the fire-engine red rotary phone in his bedroom. “I knew it was coming,”...

Robert Nesen Dies at 87

From a Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Robert Dean Nesen, assistant Navy secretary under President Nixon and ambassador to Australia during the first term of President Reagan, has died. He was 87. Nesen died Nov. 11 at his home in Thousand Oaks after a brief illness. A...