ORDERED RELEASED ON BAIL. WEN HO LEE, 60, fired Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist suspected by the FBI of espionage in smuggling U.S. nuclear secrets to China; by a federal judge's decision; after eight months' solitary confinement in a Santa Fe, N.M., prison. Judge James Parker ruled that the case for holding Lee as a security threat until his Nov. 6 trial was unpersuasive. Lee must still meet $1 million bail and be stringently monitored at his home.
DIED. EDWARD CRAVEN WALKER, 82, unabashed nudist and inventor of the oozing 1960s groovy-soothing lava lamp; in Ringwood, England. After the lamp buyer...