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...Bush Administration and its bipartisan supporters in Congress believe the civil war will be brought to an end only through a "comprehensive" settlement that includes removal of the nominally communist Hun Sen government. Others, like former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie and Democratic Senator Robert Kerrey, think the war could end through regular government-to-government contact between Washington and Phnom Penh and the lifting of the U.S.-led economic boycott of Cambodia. The former vision may be grander; the latter has a far better chance of success...
...mood of gay fantasy. It was turned down by 12 publishers before it found its way to Michael Denneny, an editor at St. Martin's Press. Denneny was mesmerized by White's poetic prose and daring story. "Of all the gay writers who made it in the '70s, Edmund was the only one who had entree in the pre-existing literary circles, the sophisticated world of Susan Sontag and Richard Howard, but he turned his back on it. He wanted it known that he was a gay writer. That was a very brave decision on his part. For me, that...
...States of Desire, his 1980 travel book, White set out "to suggest the enormous range of gay life to straight and gay people." William Burroughs said, "In Edmund White we may have found our gay Tocqueville." But the book had its critics as well. In a blistering review in the New York Times, Paul Cowan wrote, "In this journey through the baths, the bars, the streets full of preening young men, the narcotized one-night stands that are the signposts of nearly every city he visits, Mr. White shares what seems to me his characters' tragic self-delusion...
...arguments are compelling for wasting no more time in establishing normal relations. Vietnam is a tough country, but the threat it once posed to U.S. interests has largely dissipated. "Economic development is Vietnam's preoccupation, not military adventurism," says former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie. The U.S., by returning to Southeast Asia and helping set it aright, could do much to bring Vietnam into the booming Pacific Rim economy. Given Vietnam's potential, the U.S. would probably be doing itself a favor by not ceding all the investment and market opportunities to others...
...PROFILE: Edmund White faces the plague...