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...Werner Herzog. The director of "Woyzeck" spoke at the HFA this winter...
DIED. JOHN LANDRY, 73, Philip Morris marketing executive who spurred the Marlboro Man into a galloping ad success; of cancer; in Bronxville, New York. A Thoroughbred enthusiast, he founded the Marlboro Cup, a leading stakes race that folded in 1987. DIED. CHAIM HERZOG, 78, urbane, articulate former President of Israel and exemplar of the nation's soldier-statesman tradition; in Tel Aviv. As U.N. ambassador in 1975, Herzog during debate defiantly tore up the infamous resolution equating Zionism with racism. (Years later, it was repealed.) As President, the ex-general worked to broker rifts in coalition Cabinets, isolate some extremists...
...lieutenant colonel in the British army during World War II, Herzog was among the first troops at the liberation of the Bergen-Belzen concentration camp. Returning to Israel in the aftermath of the Second World War, Herzog served as a soldier in the nascent Israeli Defense Forces during the Israeli War of Independence. He went on to become Israel's chief of military intelligence, ambassador to the United Nations and chairman of the Labor Party...
...Herzog became particularly well known as Israel's ambassador to the United Nations when, in 1975, he tore up a resolution equating Zionism with racism in front of the UN General Assembly, calling the body a "theater of the absurd...
...share the sorrow of the Herzog family and the entire State of Israel. --Miriam B. Goldstein...