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Chalk it up to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's charm offensive. The Libyan leader has not only agreed to cooperate with the Pan Am trial; he has also signaled through official and unofficial channels that he is ready to do business with Washington. For starters, he has booted a number of radicals out of his country, including the infamous Abu Nidal. It may come as a surprise to those who remember the '80s--when Libya was implicated in the bombing of a discotheque in Germany that killed two American servicemen--to hear a senior U.S. official say, "At this moment, [Gaddafi...
DIED. THOMAS FEREBEE, 81, Enola Gay bombardier who dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima in World War II; in Windermere, Fla. The colonel retired from the Air Force in 1970, after acting as an observer in Vietnam...
...Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort is tantalizing, but not satisfying. It leaves one with a fascination for what it could have become, with thrilling speculations...
...between du Gard's clear and disarming prose and these scattered fragments at first is disarming, the tone never changes. Accustomed to following Maumort's (and du Gard's) scrutiny of his life, the reader only takes one step to reconstruct and assemble a life from these remnants. Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort was also a labor of love for its translators. Luc Brebion and Timothy Crouse spent seven years in consultation with Andre Daspre in preparing their excellent rendition of du Gard's work, and its publication in English marks the first complete translation available of the novel...
...example in his choice of careers. Driven by his distant but august father to pursue a military career, but convinced of his destiny as a poet, he prepares both for the military and for a degree in literature. As a result of this, he only becomes a Lieutenant-Colonel in his professional life, a life of action, and achieves nothing as a scholar, his life of contemplation...