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Alfredo Covelli, 84, who founded a party of monarchists in Italy in 1946, the same year that Italy voted to abolish its monarchy, died Friday in Rome. In 1972, the party was folded into the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement.Cathal Goulding, 75, a Marxist and former chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army, died Saturday in Dublin, Ireland.Edwin Evariste Moise, 79, an author and mathematician, died Friday in New York of complications after heart surgery. Mr. Moise, who helped decode German and Japanese military signals during World War II, specialized in topology, the study of the properties of geometric figures that stay unchanged during bending and stretching.

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. - Two Marines here negligent-homicide charges in the death of an Iraqi prisoner who had been left alone with other prisoners in that country after being interrogated, Marine officers said yesterday. Six other Marines are charged with hitting and kicking prisoners and then lying about their behavior to military investigators. All eight belong to the 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment. Maj. Clark A. Paulus and Lance Cpl. Christian Hernandez face negligent-homicide charges in the death of a 52-year-old Iraqi prisoner found dead in June at a prisoner camp run by the 1st Marine Division near the central Iraqi town of Nasiriyah.

Raymond J. Garber, a retired retail salesman who served in the Marine Corps during World War II, died Sept. 7 of multiple organ failure at Harbor Hospital. The Glen Burnie resident was 87. The son of a baker and a homemaker, Raymond Joseph Garber was born and raised in Catonsville. He was a 1942 graduate of Mount St. Joseph High School in Irvington. After high school, he joined the Marine Corps and served with the 1st Marine Division. He fought in the Guadalcanal, Okinawa and Northern China campaigns, and was in China when the war ended.

THIS IS a story about an airplane, a Korean War veteran and a gesture of gratitude to a local community organization.Kenneth R. Rollins, a Linthicum resident who fought with the 1st Marine Division in Korea, read a long time ago that in the early 1940s, the Woman's Club of Linthicum Heights contributed funds to help buy a Corsair F4U Vought fighter plane for World War II. It was the kind of plane that helped save his life more than a decade later at Pusan,...

Howard L. Muhl Jr., a retired lawyer and former Baltimore County magistrate who had fought in the Korean War, died of renal failure Oct. 12 at St. Agnes Hospital. The longtime Catonsville resident was 79. Mr. Muhl was born in Baltimore and raised on South Monastery Avenue. He left City College in 1948 and enlisted in the Marine Corps, where he earned his General Educational Development certificate. While serving with the 1st Marine Division in Korea, Mr. Muhl participated in the Inchon landing in 1950.

William Felder Mullis, a retired electrical engineer and decorated World War II Marine, died of prostate cancer at a stepdaughter's Abingdon home. He was 89. Mr. Mullis, the son of a schoolteacher-farmer and a homemaker, was born in Eastman, Ga., and raised on a farm near Macon, Ga. He graduated from Chauncey High School, and when he enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1939, he listed his occupation as "farm hand." His job summary stated that he "prepared soil, planted, cultivated and harvested cotton, corn, potatoes, tobacco, peanuts, vegetables; plowed with a team of horses; tended livestock; milked cows; and slaughtered hogs."

Olney Marine killed in Iraq The Pentagon says a Marine from Maryland has died in Iraq. Twenty-six-year-old Sgt. James R. McIlvaine of Olney was killed Thursday while supporting combat operations in Al Anbar province in Iraq. He was assigned to 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Twentynine Palms, Calif. Associated Press City police internal affairs head leaving 2 The head of the Baltimore Police Department's internal investigations division submitted retirement paperwork this week, the latest shake-up of the agency's command staff.

DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia -- Iraq's highly touted military defenses withered so quickly once the allied ground offensive began that U.S. tanks charged into Iraq 10 hours ahead of schedule while thousands of astonished American soldiers never had to fire a shot.During the first day of the assault, a U.S. Army howitzer team rolling into Iraq ahead of the 82nd Airborne Division and French forces encountered a barrage of artillery fire that landed 100 yards ahead in its path.After firing back for half an hour, the artillerymen learned that what appeared to be Iraqi shelling was merely covering fire from U.S. guns stationed to the rear.

Elizabeth Ann Cregon, a retired registered nurse and longtime volunteer, died from complications of diabetes Aug. 17 at the home of a daughter in Timonium. She was 71.Mrs. Cregon, who retired in the 1980s, had been an emergency room nurse at University of Maryland Medical Center, Mount Wilson State Hospital and Spring Grove Hospital Center.For several years, she was administrator of Calvert County Nursing Home in Prince Frederick.She was a charter member of the John Hanson Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Frederick and, for 34 years, a member of the John Eager Howard Chapter in Baltimore.