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DATE: Saturday, October 8, 1994              TAG: 9410080399
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B5   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: NEWPORT NEWS                       LENGTH: Short :   20 lines

WRITER TO DISCUSS DEMOCRACY

Lawrence Weschler, a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine, will discuss ``Settling Accounts With the Prior Regime: The Paradoxes of Justice in Democratic Transitions'' at noon Oct. 12 at Christopher Newport University.

Weschler's new book, ``Calamities of Exile,'' is a nonfictional account of three expatriates - from Iraq, Czechoslovakia and South Africa.

The speech will be in Campus Center 150 at Christopher Newport. It will be free and open to the public. For more information, call 594-7331. by CNB