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□ More April Titles: David Butler’s The Fall of Saigon: Scenes from the Sudden End of a Long War (Simon & Schuster, $17.95) is a fascinating narrative by a former NBC correspondent based in Saigon. . . . In Grenada: An Eyewitness Account of the U.S. Invasion and the Caribbean History That Provoked It (Dodd, Mead, $14.95), Hugh O’Shaughnessy, a Latin American correspondent for the British Observer and Financial Times who was one of two foreign reporters on hand to watch the Marines’ seizure of St. George’s, argues that the U.S. was to blame for the sympathy between the Bishop government and Cuba, that most of the Cubans on the island were civilians engaged in a nonmilitary construction project, and that the American action was both illegal and unnecessary.

The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams (Atlantic-Little, Brown, $19.95), by Donald Spoto, is a readable biography uncoiling the unhappy life of the playwright from his torturous early family life.

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□ More April Titles: David Butler’s The Fall of Saigon: Scenes from the Sudden End of a Long War (Simon & Schuster, $17.95) is a fascinating narrative by a former NBC correspondent based in Saigon. . . . In Grenada: An Eyewitness Account of the U.S. Invasion and the Caribbean History That Provoked It (Dodd, Mead, $14.95), Hugh O’Shaughnessy, a Latin American correspondent for the British Observer and Financial Times who was one of two foreign reporters on hand to watch the Marines’ seizure of St. George’s, argues that the U.S. was to blame for the sympathy between the Bishop government and Cuba, that most of the Cubans on the island were civilians engaged in a nonmilitary construction project, and that the American action was both illegal and unnecessary.

The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams (Atlantic-Little, Brown, $19.95), by Donald Spoto, is a readable biography uncoiling the unhappy life of the playwright from his torturous early family life.