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  3. Dec. 24, 1990: Died:Friedrich Durrenmatt
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  6. TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990               
  7. Dec. 24, 1990  What Is Kuwait?                       
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  10. <source>Time Magazine</source>
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  12. MILESTONES, Page 70
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  15. <p>     DIED. Friedrich Durrenmatt, 69, playwright and novelist with
  16. a pessimistic view of mankind; of a heart attack; in Neuchatel,
  17. Switzerland. Durrenmatt's works were translated into some 50
  18. languages. His best-known play, The Visit (1955), told of a
  19. town that when offered a fortune to kill one of its residents,
  20. slowly yields to temptation.
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