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...Died. Gabriel Voisin, 93, pioneer French aeronautical engineer; near Tournus, France. Voisin claimed that his biplane, which took off under its own power and flew a one-kilometer circuit in 1908, made the world's first valid aircraft flight. (The Wright Brothers in 1903 had used a catapult-assisted takeoff.) Voisin built 10,400 aircraft for the Allies during World...
Even stronger has been work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, whose reputation is based chiefly on the complex novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. This novel's approach to the world grows out of the introspective fantasy to Jorge Luis Borges, who is perhaps the only original, yet uncommitted, modern Lating American writer. But Marquez directly faces U.S. exploitation is grotesque, often surrealistic terms. Marquez's novel has had extremely wide circulation in South America, has been read by people who would hever read the poems of Vallejo, even by fanatic reader of Agatha Christie translations...
Philip Berrigan argued that "men of conscience had to take a higher law into their own hands." Former Alaska Senator Ernest Gruening, 86, maintained that resisters "deserve an accolade"; but he would not comment on how Armstrong should be punished because his act "turned out rather tragically." Historian Gabriel Kolko of Toronto's York University insisted: "To condemn Karl Armstrong is to condemn a whole anguished generation. His intentions were more significant than the unanticipated consequences of his actions...
...ship-to-ship Gabriel missile, developed by Israeli scientists, has a range of more than twelve miles. Israel also uses American-made jets, tanks and artillery, and arms its warplanes with missiles and rockets the U.S. perfected in Viet Nam. Especially deadly are the Sidewinder air-to-air heat-seeking missile; the Sparrow, an air-to-air missile that uses radar to direct it against either planes or tanks; and the Maverick, the so-called smart rocket of the Viet Nam War, which carries a TV camera that steers it to targets on the ground. These missiles have accounted...
...Died. Gabriel Marcel, 83, French dramatist, critic, musician and philosopher; of a heart attack; in Paris. A Roman Catholic and a pioneering existentialist who preferred the designation "Neo-Socratic," Marcel rejected abstract thinking as a solution to man's moral problems. Instead, he struggled to define a concrete philosophy that would help man find, in the sense of his own being and in his unselfish love of others, an approach to God. Marcel's best-known books were Metaphysical Journal (1927), Being and Having (1935) and The Mystery of Being (1951). -Died. Ludwig von Mises, 92, Austrian-born...