Vol.61/No.31 September 15, 1997
Correction
The article "Washington pushes for domination of Caspian
Sea Oil" in the September 8 Militant made the following
statement that contains two errors. "Harry Flashman was the
main character in a series of mystery novels, authored in
the mid-1800s by British writer George MacDonald Fraser,"
the article said. "Flashman was a regional spy used by the
British crown and other colonial powers in their designs to
dominate the region at the time. Kipling wrote similar
stories using a character name Kim."
Fraser published a series of novels using Flashman as
the fictional character beginning in 1969, not in the mid-
1800s. The last such story, Flashman and the Angel of the
Lord, was published in 1994. Harry Flashman's activities as
a fictional spy did take place in the mid-1800s. Also,
Rudyard Kipling published one novel using Kim as a fictional
character, not several stories as the article said. The
novel, titled Kim, was published in 1901.
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