Show I The Herald Journal Logan Utah Friday October 17 2003 — A7 f mi World In brief Report: North Korea says it will display nuclear force I t AP photo French philosopher author dies JERUSALEM (AP) — Benny Levy a secretary to the famed Sartre and a forma' militant French philosopher Jean-Pasocialist who later embraced a life cf piety and study of Judaism has died in Jerusalem at the age of 58 ul Levy a leading French philosopher and author died Wednesday of a heart attack said Colette Olive a spokeswoman for his French publisher Editions Verdier Levy was born in Cairo Egypt on Aug 28 1945 into a Jewish family and later moved toFrance where he studied at die elite Ecole Normale Superieure Joining Paris’s circles Levy became a prominent radical in the 1968 student protests and was best known by his rebel name Pierre Victor Levy is perhaps best known for his role as personal secretary to an aging and blind Sartre from 1974 until his death in 1980 A month before Sartre’s death the Paris weekly magazine Le Nouvel Observateur published final his thoughts and interviews the last ever given — that Levy conducted with Sartre The : ' interviews caused a stir because they seemed to show Sartre had abandoned a leftist ideology and embraced religion a path that Levy himself took st ipr?''''' ' l&iots NEW DELHI (AP) — A Swiss diplomat was abducted and raped by two men as she left the International Film Festival in the Indian capital New Delhi v- : Police mounted a city wide search for the suspects Thursday offered a $11 10 reward for information leading to their capture : and tightened security for the festival Vv' v in do know can a city like Delhi” how this not “We happen Press Trust of India news agency quoted Swiss Ambassador Walter P Gyger as saying “We hope the criminals are arrested ' ' soonand punished” The woman who worked in the consular wing of the Swiss Embassy returned to Switzerland on Wednesday night the embassy reported - ' t‘ - ' r t V ' ANNIVERSARY ffllMIB 6ft Atl Seivitu ‘THactined & SertQVti The Ultimate Quilting Machine Built-i-n Dual Feed! German Built Quality at a Great Price! 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