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DIED. Vinoba Bhave, 87, saintly ascetic who inherited Mahatma Gandhi's role as India's spiritual conscience; after observing the tradition of embracing death with a weeklong fast, following a heart attack; in Paunar, Maharashtra, India. Slight but vigorous ("a Hercules," said Gandhi), Bhave was a loinclothed apostle...
Another attack at sea produced no casualties, but a mystery. Some 500 miles northeast of the Falklands, the 220,117-ton U.S.-owned but Liberian-registered supertanker Hercules was steaming south with her oil tanks empty. Her eventual destination: Alaska. The ship was far from the 200-mile blockade limit...
British ships edging within 14 miles of the Falklands coast continued last week to shell the Port Stanley area and the airfield, which London said was "severely cratered." But the Argentines displayed a film showing C-130 Hercules aircraft taking off from the airstrip. The landing strip may have been...
The pall of smoke from the Sheffield had been clearly visible from the Hermes, where it brought a personal sense of loss to Fleet Commander Woodward. He was captain of the Sheffield from 1976 to 1978. There was another irony. While the Sheffield was being built at Barrow-in-Furness...
LIKE HER earlier novels, Southern Discomfort is redolent of feminism. Most major characters are women, several of whom exhibit great strength and independence, although none are idealized. This offers acute timeless insights into the limits and opportunities available to women bound by traditional societies, revealing hidden heroism and behind-the...