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DIED. EDWARD GOREY, 75, author and illustrator of more than 100 morbidly funny books; of a heart attack; in Yarmouth Port, Mass. A former book-jacket designer, he created such macabre classics as The Gashlycrumb Tinies, an alphabet book in which A stands for "Amy who fell down the stairs." Though not a recluse, Gorey avoided the limelight (he declined a 1980 Tony Award for his gothic Dracula set design). Despite plaudits from critics such as Edmund Wilson, Gorey said that to take his work seriously would be "the height of folly...
...town centerpiece is the Zwaanendael Museum, a model of a Dutch city hall with ornamental gables and carved stonework. Inside are maritime history exhibits with information and artifacts relating to the 1631 Dutch settlement of Lewes and the 1812 British bombardment of the port...
...farther north. Hydrologists are now proposing formerly unthinkable ideas--such as breaching the levees from New Orleans to the river's mouth--if only to spread enough silt to slow the Gulf's encroachment on the city. Even if that's done (it would probably cost New Orleans its port), it's hard to believe the Missouri dams will be removed, so the land loss will go on. Pieces of Plaquemines Parish might remain above water a few decades longer. Ultimately, as the Gulf closes in, New Orleans--which is below sea level, abjectly dependent on levee protection--could find...
DIED. JEAN LEOPOLD DOMINIQUE, 69, pro-democracy director of Radio Haiti Inter; from gunshots by attackers; in Port-au-Prince (see Eulogy, below...
...Cuban spy after all 45. World Bank offering 46. "__ had it!" 47. "Without __" (book about history of lynching in the U.S.) 53. Snooker 54. Michael Collins' land 55. "Viva __!" (Palestinians' cheer to the Pope) 56. Aardvark morsel 57. Word for Yorick 58. Egypt's Port...