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...immigrant Jamaicans, Powell won his commission after graduating from City University of New York. He served two tours in Viet Nam, where he won a Bronze Star for valor and a Purple Heart. Like all good soldiers, Powell has subordinated his political views. He has never shied from projecting military force and was instrumental in implementing Reagan's controversial naval-escort policy in the Persian Gulf. But Powell is also a realist whose thoughtful analysis helped wean Reagan from overly aggressive support for the Nicaraguan contras...
...says Carroll. But even if he never gets to test his talents in government, Clancy has already performed a national service of sorts: more than any recent popular novelist he has sought to explain the military and its moral code to civilians. Such a voice was needed, for Viet Nam had created a barrier of estrangement between America's warrior class and the nation it serves. Tom Clancy's novels may be romanticized, but they have helped bring down this wall. Not bad for a small- town insurance man who thought he might try his hand at popular fiction...
CINEMA: Dreaming the Viet Nam nightmare again...
...Viet Nam? Again. At this late date. In the case of Casualties of War, there can be only one answer: for further diagnostic tests on the national conscience. For the story it tells, based on an incident first reported in The New Yorker by Daniel Lang two decades ago, is too brutally horrific to contemplate unless some moral edification can be derived from it, some guide to the larger enigmas of human conduct...
...accept it. "I knew right away that this was for me," Hwang said. Where others saw in Boursicot's story one of the odd corners of human life, Hwang perceived in it -- or reinvented it to be -- a reflection of decades of megatrends, from the French fiasco in Viet Nam and the waning of imperialism to '60s Maoism in both China and the West, from feminism to male chauvinist backlash. "What interested me most from the start," he recalls, "was the idea of the perfect woman. A real woman can only be herself, but a man, because he is presenting...