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DIED. Harold (Hal) Foster, 89, creator in 1937 of the richly colored, exquisitely drawn Prince Valiant comic strip (now syndicated in 350 newspapers), which was celebrated for its scholarly research on the medieval period and the King Arthur legend; of a heart attack; in Spring Hill, Fla. "God in his wisdom endowed me with certain imperfections," said Foster, "but I have made Prince Valiant as I wish God had made...
While Haig's contentiousness and personality were handicaps, he nevertheless fought a valiant fight against huge obstacles. A practical man with formidable experience in world affairs, he was up against a President and a White House staff with no similar background. Reagan and such influential Cabinet officials as Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, moreover, were ideologues who tended to heed rather than carefully consider the likely result of their actions. Without the wholehearted backing of a strong President who had a clear vision of America's global role, Haig's attempt to forge a consistent policy was doomed...
...Beirut one month later, the annexation of the Golan Heights last December-the Reagan Administration was presented with a distasteful decision and left to piece together a hasty solution to the regional turmoil. This time, the invading Israelis had simply swept aside one of Washington's most valiant efforts at Middle East peace keeping to date: the fragile, unwritten cease-fire between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, crafted just eleven months earlier by U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib. Its collapse confronted Washington with one of the more awkward dilemmas it has faced in the explosive Middle East...
Uncle Scrooge never had the high-style sizzle of Superman or Prince Valiant, or the cockeyed melodrama of Dick Tracy, but the mock-heroic sweep of Barks' stories and the whimsical clarity of his drawing made a heavy mark on a generation of children for whom comic books offered a powerful mythology. That mark shows up in some unlikely places. Barks' stories, as Film Director George Lucas points out in his affectionate Appreciation, are "very cinematic. They...don't just move from panel to panel, but flow in sequences-sometimes several pages long." Fans of the Lucas...
...first Princeton game yesterday, the Crimson made another valiant comeback attempt, getting a run in the fourth and three more in the fifth to tie the game at seven. But the Tigers did some bouncing back of their own, scoring a run in the top of the seventh to win the game...