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...three, the most important is Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, 35, presumed leader of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions, who is serving a four-year sentence in Lyons for illegally possessing weapons and false identity papers. Abdallah's fingerprints were also discovered in an apartment found to contain the Czech-made pistol used in the 1982 Paris killings of U.S. Military Attache Charles Robert Ray and Israeli Diplomat Yacov Barsimantov. French authorities, however, say they still lack sufficient evidence to try him in connection with those cases. Persistent rumors that the French might be considering his release have...
...Ernest Hemingway's mother mailed him a chocolate cake. Along with it she sent the .32-cal. Smith & Wesson revolver with which Hemingway's father had just killed himself. Hemingway dropped the pistol into a deep lake in Wyoming "and saw it go down making bubbles until it was just as big as a watch charm in that clear water, and then it was out of sight...
...easier to see to the bottom of the brook than to the dark cold place in the psyche where that pistol came to rest. Ernest Hemingway's books are easier to know, and love, than his life. He wrote, at his early best, a prose of powerful and brilliant simplicity. But his character was not simple. In one of his stories, he wrote: "The most complicated subject that I know, since I am a man, is a man's life." The most complicated subject that he knew was Ernest Hemingway...
...sometimes a liar and a fraud. He was profoundly creative and profoundly destructive. He had a spontaneous gift of life. He enjoyed (that is the word) a lifelong relationship with death. He resolved all contradictions at last by joining his father and his father's pistol in the amniotic deep...
...House, came Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston's fresh troops, who had just arrived from Manassas. The Northern advance faltered. A Union private yelled, "I can't see!" as he stumbled and fell into the weeds. Another Northerner lost his nerve and began to run. His colonel drew a pistol and yelled, "You have two seconds to get back into that line or you will be dead." The coward slunk back...