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...Paradise (Wesleyan University; 128 pages; $19.95). Raised in a particularly racist precinct of rural Louisiana, Komunyakaa, who is black, was drafted into the Vietnam War and assigned to write for the Southern Cross, a newspaper for infantrymen. Thirty years later, the artillery fire still echoes in his work. In "Ia Drang Valley," a slender, striking war poem both lyrical and blunt, a soldier dreams himself into a Goya painting of a firing squad: "I stand/ before the bright rifles,/ nailed to the moment." Komunyakaa's other great theme is race, and not just his own. In "Quatrains for Ishi...
Ault, who is teaching Chemistry 30: "Organic Chemistry" this semester, is taking a semester sabbatical from Cornell College in Mount Vernon, IA. But Ault is not new to the Harvard chemistry department--he earned his Ph.D. there in 1960 and has taught introductory organic chemistry at the Summer School for the past 11 years...
...Bosnia. But he emphasized that no troops would be going until and unless a peace is agreed to by the warring parties. TIME's J.F.O. McAllister says that Clinton "is staking an awful lot on the success of the peace talks. If they fail, he has failed and Bosnia ia s mess. There will have been a lot of pain and no gain. This is a big gamble...
...Associated Press quoted Weld as denying the Herald's report. The newspaper cited draft board records from Long Island, where Weld is from, which said the governor was four times certified as IA--available service...
Terry Branstad, Gov. IA...