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...Julian Beck, 60, avant-garde actor-director who with his wife Judith Malina founded and for 38 years ran the influential Living Theater, which used improvisation and superrealistic horror effects to shock audiences and express their pacifism and dissent from society, in such productions as The Connection (1959), The Brig (1963) and Frankenstein (1965); of cancer; in New York City...
There was a time when a Navy man talked like a sailor. He cooked in the galley and ate on the mess deck. If he got out of line he was thrown into the brig. But in the 1970s the Navy adopted the language of landlubbers. The galley became a kitchen; the mess deck was termed the enlisted dining facility; the brig was transformed into a correctional facility. Even the snappy BOQ, Bachelor Officers' Quarters, gave way to unaccompanied officer personnel housing...
Equally terrifying is the behavior of some IDF officers once the Phalangists had gone into the camps. Just hours after the attack began. Brig Gen. Amos Yaron, the Israeli division commander in Beirut, was informed by one of his men that something was amiss. He did nothing. Two hours later, a Phalangist commander briefed a group of Israelis, including Yaron, that 300 people had been killed. Yaron simply warned the commander to cease such actions and left it at that. The massacre continued for two more days before the IDF put a stop...
BERKELEY-An ultra-conservative political group has asked the state attorney general and the Alameda County District Attorney's office to investigate its claim that international terrorism-including the recent kidnapping of Brig. Gen. James Dozier in Italy-can be linked to "radical networks" centered at the University of California at Berkeley...
...They were found by the brig Indian, February 17, 1821, 450 miles off the coast of Chile, having sailed 3,500 miles. The captain's boat was also saved, but the third whaleboat, with its crew of six, was never found. Nickerson's account of what happened in the captain's boat...