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...arms race. Berrigan, a former Josephite priest, was excommunicated after marrying a Sacred Heart nun, Elizabeth McAlister, in 1973; she is serving a three-year prison sentence for vandalizing a B-52 bomber. The couple try to alternate prison terms to care for their three children at Jonah House, a communal residence in Baltimore. Brother Daniel Berrigan, 63, a Jesuit, works with a New York City peace group and counsels AIDS and cancer victims at a Manhattan hospice...
...Jonah swallowed more than the whale last week. He also gulped down Dynasty, Hotel, Good Morning America, Monday Night Football, the 1988 Winter Olympics and Ted Koppel. It was as simple as, well, ABC. In the first purchase ever of a major television network, small and scrappy Capital Cities Communications (1984 revenues: less than $1 billion) of New York City agreed to buy the American Broadcasting Cos., which is almost four times its size. The price, $3.5 billion for ABC's 29.1 million common shares, made the acquisition the largest outside the oil industry in American corporate history. The razzle...
...Testament story seems retold as often as the episode of Jonah swallowed whole (there are strong suggestions of it in works as disparate as Pinocchio and Jaws). But somehow Warwick Hutton has found a way of giving the tale a fresh approach in Jonah and the Great Fish (Atheneum; $12.95). The text is simplified but not simpleminded, and if the sins have been scaled down, the sinner has not. As Jonah and his shipmates are buffeted by the tempest, the wind seems to blow from the page, and the great fish that consumes him soon turns from a monster into...
...helicopters ferried equipment and supplies from a coastal landing pad near Beirut International Airport to the waiting ships of the U.S. Sixth Fleet outlined, gray on gray, on the horizon. Nudged by a forklift truck, a long-barreled 155-mm howitzer trundled slowly down a jetty and disappeared, like Jonah into the whale, inside a landing craft; it was followed by a procession of Jeeps and other vehicles until finally the landing craft pulled away to make room for another. At one point an armored personnel carrier manned by Shi'ite Muslim militiamen rattled past a U.S. observation tower...
...everywhere. When God commanded the prophet Jonah to go to Nineveh and order the city to repent, Jonah found the prospect so daunting that he tried to run away. God found him and sent him back. (Nineveh repented.) After KAL 007, one suspects that today even He would hesitate before dispatching Jonah on a similar mission to Moscow. -By Charles Krauthammer