Word: glyn
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...BREAKAGE By Glyn Maxwell Houghton Mifflin $22, 80pp...
...Only 39, Glyn Maxwell is an accomplished poet, being likened to W.H. Auden and Robert Frost. He is the Somerset Maugham Prize and the E. M. Forester Prize, and The Breakage is on the T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist for 1998. Now a professor at Amherst College, Maxwell was born in Hertfordshire, England. His British heritage, apparent in his writing, dominates many of his poems concerned with historical events in English history or merely sprinkles his other poetry with British lingo and allusions...
...less forceful on the problem of Slobodan Milosevic, whom he criticized cautiously: "We join in condemning the Serbian government's decision to ignore the results of the Nov. 17 elections. The people of Serbia deserve what their neighbors in Central Europe have -- clean elections." In Washington, State Department spokesman Glyn Davies said the United States would continue "turning up the flame" on Milosevic. Milosevic is sure to feel more heat after Dejan Bulatovic, arrested after he held aloft a effigy of the Serb president dressed in jailbird stripes, was beaten and tortured while in prison. The official charge? Traffic violations...
JERUSALEM: After his attempts to bring Syrian President Hafez Assad to the negotiating table were briskly rebuffed, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to turn to the U.S. for help. State Department spokesman Glyn Davies announced Wednesday that the U.S. will act as a go-between and send an Israeli offer of peace talks without preconditions to the Syrian government. Davies said the U.S. was trying to facilitate contacts between the two sides so that negotiations over the status of the Golan Heights can resume. "Netanyahu is trying to make sure he's not blamed because the talks...
JERUSALEM: After his attempts to bring Syrian President Hafez Assad to the negotiating table were briskly rebuffed, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to turn to the U.S. for help. State Department spokesman Glyn Davies announced Wednesday that the U.S. will act as a go-between and send an Israeli offer of peace talks without preconditions to the Syrian government. Davies said the U.S. was trying to facilitate contacts between the two sides so that negotiations over the status of the Golan Heights can resume. "Netanyahu is trying to make sure he's not blamed because the talks...