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National & world briefing Famed historian Stephen Ambrose dies Mark Feeney The Boston Globe (U-WIRE) Stephen E. Ambrose, whose stir ring books on such heroic episodes in U.S. history as D-Day and the Lewis and Clark expedition made him one of America’s best-selling historians and earned him a Nation al Humanities Medal in 1998, died Sunday at a hospital in Bay St. Louis, Miss. He was 66. A longtime smoker, he was diag nosed with lung cancer in April. Ambrose, whose multivolume biog raphies of Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon first brought him to prominence in the 1980s, drew wide spread attention earlier this year over revelations that he had plagiarized a number of brief passages in at least five of his books. In each case, Am brose had cited the sburce in his end notes, but did not put quotation marks around the words. “I always thought plagiarism meant using another people’s words and ideas, pretending they were your own and profiting from it,” Am brose wrote in explanation of the in cidents. “I do not do that, never have done that and never will.” The significance of his careless ness remains in dispute; the cause does not. Between 1996 and 2001, he published no fewer than nine books, as well as the revised edition the chair.” So prolific was Ambrose that in 2001, The Wall Street Journal dubbed him and his various enter prises — writing, lecturing, even lending his name to historical tours — “History Inc.” Several things contributed to Am brose’s popularity. One was his un wavering emphasis on narrative. “As I sit at my computer,” he once wrote, “I think of myself as sitting around the campfire after a day on the trail, telling stories that I hope will have ... readers leaning forward just a bit, wanting to know what happens next” *v'7 | Such an attitude made Ambrose a throwback in an era when historian? increasingly eschewed storytelling for tndre analytical or interpretative approaches, but It also made him a favorite of millions of readers. He “combined high standards of scholarship with the capacity to make history come alive for a lay au dience,” said Arthur Schlesinger, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and former aide to President Kennedy. Ambrose was bom in Decatur, 111., the second of three brothers. His parents were Stephen, a physician, and Rosepha (Trippe), a housewife. Growing up in the small town of Whitewater, Wis., Ambrose was an Eagle scout and hoped to follow in his father’s footsteps as a general practitioner. At the University' of Wisconsin, he played football and, captivated by a course on American history, aban doned the idea of medical school. Af ter graduating, he earned a master’s degree in history at Louisiana State University, where he studied with T. Harry Williams. He returned to Wis consin for his doctorate. Dr. Ambrose taught at the New Orleans campus of Louisiana State University (which later became the University of New Orleans) from 1960 to 1966. He spent the next three years at Johns Hopkins Uni versity. While at Johns Hopkins, he first demonstrated his interest in the general reader, unsuccessfully seek ing to become a columnist with The Baltimore Evening Sun. Dr. Ambrose’s first wife, Judith, died in 1967. He leaves his wife, Moira; and five children, Stephenie, Barry, Andrew, Grace, and Hugh. His last book, “To America: Person al Reflections of an Historian,” which he called his love song to his country, is set for release next month. Seth Mydans New York Times BALI, Indonesia — In the dark and the screaming chaos, said one survivor on Sunday, it was some times hard to know whether the man who appeared to be running toward him through the flames was alive or already dead. “Like you look at their face and you can’t make anything out; there’s nothing left,” said Jared Kays, 23, a vacationer from London. “People were missing ears, people were missing limbs, their skin was peeling off.” On the morning after what may have been the deadliest terrorist at tack since Sept. 11 last year, what remained of two discos on this sun ny tourist island looked as if they had been bombed from the air in stead of from the roadside. ™ * The ear bombing just before mid night on Saturday sent fire raging through a dozen buildings at Kuta Beach, witk its bars and dance clubs. It is one of the world’s most popular vacation spots for surfers, backpackers and college students. The death toll continued to climb on Sunday, to at least 182, most of the dead being foreigners on vaca tion. A dozen of the 300 injured sur vivors were reported to be in critical condition, and another 30 bodies were estimated still to be buried in the rubble. On Sunday* the survivors de scribed what seemed to be two ex plosions, the first small one sound Luke, 22, of Britain, whose Australian boyfriend was killed in the fire. “We were all dancing away, some cheesy pop song," she said. “We stopped and looked at each other. ‘What was that sound?1 We sort of laughed nervously and carried on dancing. And within five or ten sec onds, voom! Your feet were just sucked out from under you. I was lying on the floor. Everything was black. It was crackling with flames. Though Investigators have only begun their work, diplomats — and President Bush as well — made no secret of their belief that this was the latest of a recent series of at tacks linked to al-Qaetla. “On behalf of the people of the United States, I condemn this heinous act,” Bush said on Sunday in a statement, “The world must confront this global menace, terrorism. “We must together challenge and defeat the idea that the wanton killing of innocents advances any cause or supports any aspirations. And we must call this despicable act by its rightful name: murder.” The U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, In donesia’s capital, denounced the at tack as “a despicable act of terror.” The explosion at the nightclubs came almost at the same moment as a smaller blast near the U.S. consulate here that caused no in juries. Earlier Saturday, a suspect ed homemade bomb shattered win dows but caused no injuries at the Philippine consulate in the Indone sian city of Manado. The day’s attacks followed a half dozen other bombings in Southeast Asia in the past three weeks. These included two in the southern Philip pines that killed one American sol dier and at least 11 Filipinos and a grenade explosion near a U.S. Em bassy residence in Jakarta. _ S r Police know more them they will say about sniper Bob Dart Cox News Service (U-WIRE) WASHINGTON — Urging a fearful community to “keep the faith,” in vestigators indicated Sunday that they know more than they’re saying about the serial sniper who shot 10 people in 10 days. “We don’t want to release any thing that may cause the media or anyone to think they’re a suspect,” federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent Mike Bouchard told reporters. “We don’t want them to fear they are going to be labeled as a suspect.” “Please rest assured, when we have something we are confident media can help us with, we will use that,” echoed Montgomery County police Chief Charles Moose. “It is a fine balance” in deciding what to tell the public without tip ping off the killer, Moose explained at a morning briefing. “We want people to keep the faith.” Moose and other investigators have refused to say whether they have eyewitness descriptions of the sniper or pictures from surveil lance cameras that show him. Fir ing 10 bullets, the sniper left eight people dead and two wounded be tween Oct. 2 and Oct. 11, when the latest killing occurred. Investigators are checking Penta gon files about soldiers who have been recently discharged and have had sniper training, Time Magazine is reporting in the issue to hit news stands on Monday. A Georgia man has also told the New York Post that police showed him a picture of a suspected sniper taken from a video surveillance tape at one of the shooting scenes. Robert Epps, 36, said he was questioned by police near the site of the latest killing — a gas station off an 1-95 exit near Massaponax, Va. He said the investigators com pared his face to the picture on the tape. “They thought I was the sniper,” Epps told the newspaper. He was later released. Peace Corps Get ready to redefine your world! 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