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...historical novel based on an 18th century love affair between Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson seems an unlikely subject for Susan Sontag. But the essayist, cultural critics and author of the famous "Notes on Camp" and the 1969 book Styles of Radical Will has recently written a historical novel of ideas...
...issue. Policy involves making trade-offs, and in 1973 a difficult one was made: the Nixon Administration decided that it was best not to scuttle the peace agreement or re-engage in the war despite the fact that some missing Americans had not yet been accounted for. Winston Lord, Kissinger's onetime aide, was the only witness last week willing to discuss this uncomfortable truth, calling the trade-off tough and agonizing. This choice may not have been the right one, but it was an understandable one given the public mood at the time...
...winter approaches with a cold promise of more agony for civilians pinned down in Sarajevo, Goradze and other towns in the war-torn republic. But movement toward an end to the hostilities remains fitful at best. Former U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and former British Foreign Secretary Lord Owen, co-chairmen of the peace conference on + Yugoslavia, were encouraged that leaders of all three Bosnian factions agreed to meet in Geneva this week. With the spirit of compromise long since bludgeoned by atrocities on all sides, however, no agreement at the table is likely. And the deadly frustrations...
Surely the Lord shall visit the pious and shall call the righteous by name. His spirit shall hover over the poor; by his strength he shall renew the faithful. He shall glorify the pious upon the throne of the eternal kingdom. He shall release the captives, restore sight to the blind, make straight those who are bent double . . . He shall heal the wounded, resurrect the dead, preach glad tidings to the poor...
...Balkan war has produced as many broken promises as broken bodies. Though the warring parties agreed to begin new talks next week in Geneva, some of those closest to the crisis are giving up hope. Britain's Lord Carrington, the European Community negotiator, resigned after a year of fruitless labor -- including more than 30 cease-fires, all broken. And George D. Kenney, a career diplomat who heads the State Department's Yugoslavia desk, resigned to protest America's failure to act decisively against Serbian "genocide." The London conference, he said, was "a charade...