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...Israel's latest war hero, General Ariel ("Arik") Sharon, who led the Israeli army's daring and successful counterthrust across the Suez Canal. Likud's greatest obstacle to victory is clearly Menachem Begin, who has led the opposition since 1948. Born 60 years ago in Brest Litovsk, Begin (pronounced Bay-ghin) came to Palestine with the Polish Army in 1942 and soon set up an anti-British terrorist organization, the Irgun Zvai Leumi. Among the Irgun's acts of savagery under his command were the blowing up of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem...
...power in Russia, rather unexpectedly, in 1917, they renounced the imperialism which had marked the Tsarist regime. Viewing the war then raging as an imperialist conflict, they also renounced the preceding Provisional Government's participation in the war, a decision which cost them dearly when the treaty of Brest-Litovsk ended Russia's role in World War I. Lenin was a committed Marxist and he viewed backward Russia initially as only the first stepping stone in a march to world socialism which he expected would emerge quickly in the advanced countries of Europe...
...glacial calm, Madame de Gaulle asked that news of the General's death be withheld "until I can notify my family." She quickly reached her daughter Elizabeth in Paris, who set out for Colombey with her husband General Alain de Boissieu. Son Philippe, a navy captain stationed in Brest, was more difficult to locate. As a result, Pompidou was not notified until 4 a.m., and it was not until 17½ hours after his mentor's death that he finally went on television. "General de Gaulle is dead," he said. "France is a widow...
...More and more people started dropping in for a few hours or to stay for a few days. When the news of Dom Besret's dismissal got out, some 12,000 people made their way to the monastery to attend Sunday Mass. Students from Rennes and Brest universities threatened to march on Boquen and occupy it in protest. The local bishop strongly approved of Dom Besret's experiment, which, he said, "was followed with sympathy and hope by many Christians, priests as well as laity...
Happily, he got his armorial bearings in Brest (and a motto to match: "Love, Work, Suffer"), though he made no headway in claiming the barony that is said to go with the name. It is fortunate, too, for the reader, that Kerouac lost his own bearings so often: amusingly drunken cafe brawls, busted suitcases tied up with neckties, lost planes, overcharging tarts and mercenary French petite bourgeoisie. Kerouac is an engaging fellow. Brave, too. At one point, he undertook to explain to goggle-eyed Parisians that he speaks purer French than they, because "I roll...