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...been all about conflict resolution and prevention. The official citation made only a veiled reference to George W. Bush: "In a situation currently marked by threats of the use of power, Carter has stood by the principles" of mediation and cooperation. But in case anybody missed the point, chairman Gunnar Berge elaborated: "This must be read as criticism of the present U.S. Administration...
...There is a war in Gunnar Kopperud's meditative novel Longing (Bloomsbury; 256 pages), and it takes place in the memories of his unnamed protagonists: a European reporter who's a veteran of the human-misery beat, and a conflicted North African freedom fighter. Lovers during her bloody war, peacetime erodes their relationship. She recovers a sense of normalcy, however fragile, while he is unable to break his obsession with covering Third World suffering. He is a witness and death is his subject, and as time passes he seems to long for his favorite m?tier. A concerned editor sends...
...freedom of a Sudanese slave. The group has kept meticulous records and case histories of the 4,016 people, mostly of the Dinka tribe, it has rescued so far. It takes advantage of the market to free the people taken by bandits, tribal leaders and professional slave traders. Says Gunnar Wiebalck, who is in charge of disaster aid for Christian Solidarity: "Arab traders know that we buy them back." The ex-slaves, many uprooted by the country's civil war, are then re-established in society by other Christian Solidarity programs...
...Schuster; $32.50) by noted Harvard professor Stephan Thernstrom and his scholar wife Abigail. The couple are the latest in a string of former liberals come round to denounce affirmative action. But unlike more polemical authors, the Thernstroms pin their arguments to seven years of research, modeling their approach on Gunnar Myrdal's 1944 benchmark racial survey, An American Dilemma. Their prose is cool, not overheated, and their 704-page book is stuffed with tables, charts and graphs tracking black progress over the past 60 years...
...choice of a retired vice admiral for a running mate did not offer balance to his ticket. But it was his bowing out of the race, in deference to his family, after pledging that he would stay in the campaign all the way, that cost Perot his credibility--permanently. GUNNAR S. JENSON South Bend, Indiana