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The attacker grabbed the officer's gun and fatally shot himself, the agency adds. The officer was identified as George Gonzalez, a veteran who served in Iraq, by the Pentagon Force Protection Agency.

2: Writer HOWARD NORMAN has been nominated for the National Book Award for his new novel "The Bird Artist" (Farrar, Straus, Giroux). The book takes place in Newfoundland in 1911, and is about an artist who murders the town's lighthouse keeper. NORMAN is also the author of a short story collection and "The Northern Lights," a National Book Award Nominee in 1987.

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1: .Playwright DAVID MAMET. His plays include "American Buffalo," "Speed-the-Plow," "Glengarry Glen Ross (for which he won a Pulitzer), and "Oleanna." His movies include, "Homicide," "House of Games," and "Things Change." Mamet is best known for his style of writing. New York Times theatre critic Frank Rich described Mamet's writing in "Glengarry Glen Ross" as, "burying layers of meaning into simple precisely distilled idiomatic language." MAMET has written several books of essays; he's just published his first novel, "The Village." (Little Brown and Company).

V critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews reruns of "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour," which air on the cable channel, E! Entertainment Television. The comedy show was canceled in 1969.

Former president of Harvard DEREK BOK. In his new book, "The Cost of Talent: How Executives and Professionals Are Paid and How It Affects America" (Free Press), BOK argues that the rich shouldn't be so much richer. He says that huge salary gaps result in social and economic losses, "jeopardiz democracy by weakening faith in the economic system". Bok was the president of Harvard University from 1971 to 1991. He has written five other books

2: HARVEY KRAVITZ and JACK TREATMAN are coffee experts. KRAVITZ is a coffee consultant. TREATMAN is the co-proprietor of Old City Coffee in Philadelphia. They talk about coffee beans, coffee history and the coffee culture.

2: Novelist IAN FRAZIER is the author of "Family" (Farrar, Straus, Giroux), a book which traces his ancestors back to the 1600's. His inspiration for the book came from old letters he found after the death of his parents in 1987 and 1988. Their death gave him the desire to find "a meaning that would defeat death" in the letters. FRAZIER is also the author of "Dating Your Mom," "Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody," and "Great Plains." He is a regular contributor to the "New Yorker."

Journalist and professor RANDALL BALMER. He hosted the PBS series, "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America," which aired in May. There's also a companion book to it, the same title (published by Oxford University Press in 1989). BALMER is Associate Professor of Religion at Barnard College, Columbia University.

JOHNNY OTIS is a pioneer of rhythm and blues music. He has been a R&B musician, singer, and songwriter. He is best known for his 1945 big band hit "Harlem Nocturne," and his 1958 his record "Willie and Hand Jive," which was in the top ten on R&B charts. Otis is back on the road and in the recording studio now. In January he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in February, he was inducted into the Rhythm &Blues Hall of Fame. His latest CD, "The Black Territory Bands," was nominated for a Grammy in the Big Band category for 1994. Capitol records reissued OTIS's sessions from the 1950's. OTIS has also just written his memoirs, "Upside Your Head! Rhythm and Blues on Central Avenue." (University Press of New England) (REBROADCAST from 11/21/89).