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Welcome to another edition of Dead End.
Some big names we haven't heard from in a long time have
finally made their last big headline. This week we make a
heartfelt farewell to political powerhouse Caspar Weinberger
and science fiction giant Stanislaw Lem. Lem's name might
not be immediately familiar, but in 2002 one of his most
famous books, Solaris, was made into a major motion picture
starring George Clooney.
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CASPAR W. WEINBERGER DIES AT 88
Caspar W. Weinberger, who held high positions under three
Republican presidents and oversaw the biggest and costliest
military buildup in peacetime history as Ronald Reagan's
secretary of defense, died yesterday in Bangor, Me, after a
brief illness. He was 88. A self-assured man and a tenacious
debater, Mr. Weinberger served in Washington off and on for
almost two decades. He was a crucial backer of Mr. Reagan's
missile-based Strategic Defense Initiative, popularly known
as Star Wars. He was also an implacable foe of the Soviet
Union. Until his death, Mr. Weinberger was chairman of
Forbes Inc. He had continued to travel around the world
until recently, his son said, and wrote a regular column
for Forbes magazine.
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SCIENCE FICTION GIANT STANISLAW LEM DEAD AT 84
Stanislaw Lem, a Polish science-fiction writer who, in novels
like "Solaris" and "His Master's Voice," contemplated man's
place in the universe in sardonic and sometimes bleak terms,
died yesterday in Krakow, Poland. He was 84. The cause was
heart failure. Mr. Lem was a giant of mid-20th-century science
fiction, in a league with Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov and
Philip K. Dick. And he addressed many of the themes they did:
the meaning of human life among superintelligent machines,
the frustrations of communicating with aliens, the likelihood
that mankind could understand a universe in which it was but
a speck. His books have been translated into at least 35
languages and have sold 27 million copies.
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FRENCH WWII ACE FIGHTER PILOT DIES AT 85
Pierre Clostermann, an ace fighter pilot who flew for de
Gaulle's Free French forces in World War II, engaging in
fierce combat in the Battle of Britain and over Normandy
on D-Day, died March 22 at his home in Montesquieu des
Alberes in southwestern France. He was 85. In three years
he flew more than 420 combat sorties, shot down 33 enemy
aircraft and possibly more, and rose to command a fighter
wing. After the war, he worked as an aeronautical engineer
and became a vice president of the Cessna Aircraft Company.
He also entered politics and spent 23 years as a high-profile
Gaullist in the French legislature until giving up his seat
in 1969.
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