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MORRIS BERNARD ZALE, a poor Russian immigrant who dropped out of school in the sixth grade but went on to found a $1.2 billion jewelry company, died Wednesday in Dallas at 93 . . . THE BRITISH Ministry of Defense announced Thursday that 97 members of the army's top brass were being discharged as part of planned defense cuts to trim up to 4 percent from Britain's 23 billion pound ($36.8 billion) defense budget . . . BRAZEN THIEVES broke through a glass door of Gucci's midtown Manhattan showroom early Thursday and fled with tens of thousands of dollars' worth of merchandise, police said.