European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 27, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes wednesday december 27,1989 Nobel winning writer Samuel Beckett Dies Paris a Nobel prize winning author Samue Beckett who created a world of everlasting despair and left theatregoers waiting for godot died at age 83 of respiratory failure and was buried tuesday his publisher said. The playwright poet and novelist whose work depicted death and decay As Mankind s sole and inescapable destiny was buried tuesday morning at Mont a amass cemetery in a private ceremony said publisher Jerome Linden. The playwright died Friday in Paris Linden  Irish bom author of godot and endgame rejected the redeeming optimism that might have made him More accessible to a mass audience an gained him earlier recognition As one of the Century s greatest writers. His was a Stark world peopled with Vagabond Cou Ples trapped by an apocalyptic sense of doom and caught in a never ending master slave dialectic often laced with wry Irish humor. Beckett s work was a cry of agony and compassionate the hopeless misery fun. Utility and loneliness of human existence which he called a slow death. I that theme reappears in the dozens of plays novels poems and Short stories he wrote in both French and English Dur ing a career that spanned More than so  were scandalized by his Experiment son the stage. Breath which premiered in 1970, had no actors no Dia Logue and no action just a Heap of gloomily lit garbage cans onstage a baby s screams and the amplified sound of heavy breathing. The play lasted just 30seconds. Until French director Roger Blin rescued the Long published but never performed waiting for godot from obscurity in 1952, Beckett s pessimistic and often difficult style limited his audience to an intellectual elite. The play about two tramps waiting for a third Wasa huge Success and brought the author instant world renown. It was translated into and performed in More than 20 languages and it helped Beckett win the Nobel prize for literature in 1969.always shy and withdrawn Beckett refused to at tend the award ceremonies in Stockholm Sweden. Resent his publisher instead and fled to Tunisia to escape the news Media. The citation described Beckett As Pioneer of a new modesty of expression in fiction and the theater. Whose writing rises like a cry for mercy from All  Beckett was secretive about his private life. He granted Only rare interviews and was one of the few writers to refuse o appear on apostrophes France s most popular Book review television Chow. Even the Date of Beckett s birth was wrapped in mystery. He said he was bom in Dublin Ireland Osgood Friday april 13, 1906. But his biographer Deir Dre Bair suggested he was really born a month earlier with Beckett shifting it to the anniversary of the crucifixion As a symbolic boost to his self made legend. The son of a Surveyor Beckett enjoyed a Comfort Able upper Middle class protestant upbringing. Though he said he had a Happy childhood he once admitted to always feeling  he studied modern languages at Trinity College Dublin and first came to pans in 1928 to lecture in English at the prestigious Ecol Normale  Paris he met another Irish exile James Joyce who was to have a profound influence on his future writing. Joyce had a moral effect on me Beckett said later. He made me Realise the meaning of  after Beckett s father. William France Beckett died i Dublin in 1933, his Mother urged Beckett to drop his literary ambitions and take up some serious  escape her and the Middle class atmosphere of his family Beckett settled permanently in Paris in1937. Merrier and Camier written in 1946 but not published until the author translated it into French in 1970, reflects the guilt and depression Beckett suffer Dover his decision to leave Ireland. Despite touches of slapstick As the two character search in vain for the parts of a dismantled bicycle the novel s theme is voluntary exile. The characters arc the first in Beckett s Long line of Vagabond couples living on the fringes of society. Beckett lured Beckett s own private torment at having to leave Home in order to find artistic Freedom. I wanted to rupture the lines of communication he told an interviewer in 1985, to state the space that intervenes Between the artist and the world of  Beckett s move came at a time when International tension was mounting but he said i preferred France at War to Ireland at  1938, Beckett was stabbed in a Paris Street Brawl. A deep knife wound pierced his lung and narrowly missed his heart. A pianist passing by on her bicycle stopped to help the gravely injured Man and have him taken to the Hospital. The girl Suzanne Desch Vaux Dumesnil though six years his senior became his lifelong companion and they finally married in secret in 1961.deschcvaux-Dumesnil died july 17 in Paris at the age of 89. The couple had no  world War ii the couple worked with the underground resistance movement in nazi occupied France and Beckett was awarded the Croix de Guerre with a Gold Star in 1945.Beckett, who All his life shunned politics later said he joined the resistance not to help France win the War but to fight the germans who were making life hell for my  world today japanese woman gives birth to test tube twins Tokyo up twin babies have been born to a 37-year-old woman in Japan s first Case of artificial insemination using Frozen eggs doctors reported tuesday. The doctors at Tokyo dental College Gen eral Hospital in Ichikawa near Tokyo said the Mother and babies both girls were doing Well. They said the babies weighing 2.16 pounds and 5.95 pounds were born two weeks prematurely at the Hospital Early monday by Means or a caesarean operation. Her pregnancy and delivery were Normal and i Don t think the babies Are significantly different from average babies in terms of their growth weight or height Toranoshin Ono head of the Hospital told reporters. The births followed three unsuccessful at tempts at the Hospital since last March the doctors said. France opts to update planes rather than buy . F-18s Paris a the government will modernize its old crusader fighters instead of buy ing american f-18s for use on aircraft carriers until the new French built rafale fighter is ready in 1998. Defense minister Jean Pierre Cheve nement said in a statement the decision was necessary because the Success of the rafale program is a National Challenge which must be  the Cost of developing and building rafales for the French Navy and air Force is estimated at about $6 billion. Naval officials argued that f-l8s, bought new or used would be better suited than the 27-year-old crusaders for use on France s air Craft carriers. But defenders of the rafale said the entire program could be endangered if the Navy opted for the american planes. France Origi Nally intended to build the rafale in cooperation with other countries but has not found any willing partners. The head of the French Navy adm. Ber Nard Louzau issued a statement saying the decision was not what i proposed hut Call ing on naval officers to support it. Cheve nement said work would begin on the crusaders As soon As possible but gave no indication How much it would Cost. Drug smugglers form Canadian connection by the new York time sin their seemingly endless search for new ways of smug gling cocaine into the United states the drug traffickers of South America have created a Canadian connection. Deterred by increasingly aggressive radar patrols in the Caribbean and the Southeastern United slates drug smugglers arc flying loads of cocaine into the sparsely populated province of new Brunswick and then transporting them into the United states by  the first half of this year there have been at least 19 suspicious planes entering Canadian airspace that the authorities suspected were carrying drugs said James Mccawley aviation group supervisor for the customs air ranch in Jacksonville Fla. In april Canadian police officers seized 1,100 pounds of cocaine with an estimated new York Street value of $25 million and arrested two colombians at an Airstrip near Fred Ancton new Brunswick. The seizure prompted concern among Canadian . Drug enforcement officials that the latin american smuggling rings had staked out the province a Haven forum runners in the prohibition years As a distribution Center for cocaine being smuggled into the United , who is responsible for tracking suspicious planes flying in the Northeast said a new drug trafficking route docs indeed appear to have been established in the last two years. Officials say they believe that the amount of cocaine entering the United states via Canada while still Small compared with that coming through Mexico and the Caribbean is growing. In the last two years the United states has significantly stepped up its radar coverage of the Caribbean by adding Early warning air planes and radar balloons that de Lettlow flying planes. As a result the smugglers have been pushed farther out into the Caribbean where they now drop their loads of Waterproof packaged cocaine to waiting boats that the slip into Florida. Or they have been flying from South America to Mexico and then smuggling the drugs across the Southwest Border into the United states. The flights to Canada arc yet another response official say to the United states pressure. Using Long Range Turboprop air planes pilots Are flying from staging Points i Colombia to the Island of St. Kins in the Caribbean and then turning North toward Canada. The route takes the planes As far As 1,500 Miles from the . Coastline. Ground based radar can detect Only 50 Miles offshore and even radar balloons floating at an Altitude of 15,000 feet cannot detect planes farther than 150 Miles away. And unlike the United states Canada does not have radar systems designed specifically for selecting drug Laden flights nor does it have planes dedicated to intercepting those flights. Officials say they believe the vast majority of the co Caine smuggled into Canada is destined for the United states. The cartels regard Canada As an easier window of Opportunity said Vince Castonguay director of the Ca Nadian customs department s interdiction , the Canadian route requires expensive air planes and experienced pilots. And since the planes must carry extra fuel for the Long flight the smugglers have to carry less cocaine than on flights to  Fredericton arrests and cocaine seizure were made after a twin engine gulfs ram Aero commander had clipped a tree and crashed at a private Airport 15 Miles from the  two pilots Jose Galindo Escobar and Fernando Mendoza Jaramillo. Both natives of Colombia were linked to Pablo Escobar a powerful Leader of the Medem Cartel. Last month Justice David Russell sentenced them each to 22 years in prison. Sparsely populated and with about 90 Remote airstrips new Brunswick is Ideal for smuggling. Many of the air strips Are owned by lumber companies or by the govern ment As a base for fire fighting and Are often deserted. No one was surprised that there were drugs  said Barry Grant a resident of Fredericton who wrote a Book about smuggling in new Brunswick. But As Muchas 1,100 pounds in one plane Load that raised a few eyebrows be said