European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Books  Gangland to How the Fri broke the mob by Howard Blum Simon & schuster. In its final 100 or so pages blurt s new Book finally becomes an absorbing report on How a special unit of the Federal Bureau of investigation gathered enough evidence to convict John Gotti the seemingly indestructible crime Boss on How the unit ferreted out a mole who was feeding Gotti information on the Fri s strategy and on How Gotti s second in com Mand the violent Salvatore Sammy Bull Gravano was induced to testify against his compatriots. Yet by finally grabbing the Reader s attention Gangland triumphs Over nothing so much As itself. For until that Point its author proves himself More a master of anticlimax than a storyteller. Chris Lehmann Haupt n. Y. Times Valuo judgment by Ellen Goodman Farrar Straus and Giroux. At the women s club one of those refuges of tasteful furniture and pre blow dryer hairdos one member asks Ellen Goodman about the semantics of rape is. Date rape and minutes later another re minds her to say hello to her son in Law who also writes columns for the Boston Globe. The personal and the political. Of course. That has been Goodman s beat since she began writing a newspaper column in 1976. Value judgments her fifth collection of columns reads As a sort of values system in Progress with Goodman confronting specific issues of the Day and perhaps coming up with larger truths in the end. There s Little of the social anthropology of the past several Yean that has escaped her discerning mind she takes on William Kennedy Smith Gays in the military. Jack Kevorkian Clarence Thomas Aldanita Hill magic Johnson and aids Tail Hook Nanny Gate Gregory k the kid who divorced his parents Woody Allen the filmmaker sleeping with his sex Lover s adoptive daughter Jean Marbella the Baltimore Sun Tho strength not to Flag hit an Oral his tory off conscientious of tetors of Tho Vietnam War by James w. Tollefson lit Lebrown. When James Tollefson applied for conscientious objector status in 1968, soon after drawing a Low number in the Vietnam draft lottery his Mother. Wrote the draft Board sometimes it s difficult to see our son for what he truly is and not what we would have him to  with . Intervention in Southeast Asia now generally discredited it s easy to forget that even half hearted support of War Resis Tance As that shown by Tollefson s Mother was unusual More typical it seems was fathers refusing forever to speak with unpatriotic sons friends turning Over friends to the Fri Loyal but pacifist Citi Zens becoming permanent exiles Young men of Prin Ciple spending hard time years in Federal Pris on. Tollefson now a professor of English at the University of Washington in Seattle reminds us of a sad chapter in . History in publishing these first person accounts of conscientious objection in which conscientious objectors Tell of jurors sobbing As they vote to convict a defendant of burning draft files prison guards seeking out jailed War resisters to shake their hands draftees with conscientious objector status who served on Vietnam s front lines As medics family reunions at which decades old Politi Cal rifts Are finally overlooked if not buried. There s great material Here one future conscientious objector Roth at Stanford recalls having helicopter practice cancelled at fort Benning because the Craft were being used to make the John Wayne film the Green berets but its Power is diluted by the author s decision to organize the Book in terms of conscientious objector experiences trials service self exile and so on rather than As individual Sto Ries. Some of those pieces though speak volumes As the conscientious objector who spent two years in Leavenworth but can still say 20 years after the fact i was Only a kid. But i was  Chris Goodrich los Angeles times decider by Dick Francis Putnam. Dick Francis has written an Agatha Christie novel. This author of More than 30 mysteries and thrillers has had a Good Deal of fun presenting the i Stisi Ijjas John Gotti from Boss to convict kind of mystery that Christie did so Well with suspicion showering on a finite cast of mostly Dis likable British upper crustaceans. Howard Picus up a history off warfare by John Keegan Alfred  since making War seems to have been human kind s chief activity until now any history of War is almost bound to be endless. How then has Keegan succeeded in telling the whole grim Story in a Little More than 400 pages he does so by imposing an idiosyncratic Organiza Tion on his material. He frames his chronicle with the obvious thesis that As men have perfected the Art of War they have rendered War progressively More pointless. Why do men fight following a Survey of human nature he brings up Harry Turney High s primitive warfare 1949a provocative Book by an american anthropologist exasperated by the ignorance of so Cial scientists about the Concrete aspects of military history. Keegan a former senior lecturer at the Royal Mil itary Academy Sandhurst and now defense editor of the daily Telegraph in London adds Turney High was right i constantly recall the look of disgust that passed Over the face of a highly distinguished curator of one of the greatest collections of arms and Armor in the world when i casually remarked to him that a common Type of debris removed from the flesh of wounded men by surgeons in the Gunpowder age was broken Bone and Teeth from neighbors in the ranks.". Chris Lehmann Haupt a witness to Reno Caldei Tho 1993 pulitzer prlxew1nnlng do Patche on the eth Nic cleansing off Bosnia by Roy Gutman Macmillan in the dust jacket photo new Day correspondent Gutman head resting on one hand eyes sunken looks away from the camera. He looks like a Man who has seen too much. Gutman was the first West Ern reporter in july 1992, to visit the bosnian serb run death Camps in Northern Bosnia. The Story in which Gutman interviewed detainees from Camps at Omar ska where 5,000 of the 13,000 prisoners were killed and Brcko Luka ran on new Day s cover under the headline the death Camps of  Susan Reynolds los Angeles times from Cradle to Cravei Tho human face of poverty in America by Jonathan Reedman athenaeum. Freedman s columns on social issues have been featured in the los Angeles times the new York times and the san Diego Union Tribune. In 1987, he won a pulitzer prize for distinguished editorial writing. The interviews that Freedman conducts con Vince him that poverty is More often linked to psychological wounds often the result of sexual abuse than to economic and social factors. 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