Ever the general, colin powell needed battlefield "intel." So from the Connaught Hotel in London and the Royal Monceau in Paris, he kept in touch last week with advisers back home while he traveled on his book tour. They gave him updates on the uncivil war consuming America since the divisive verdict in the O. J. Simpson trial and the advent of Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March. The events intensified pleas for Powell to run for president. But they also added pressure on him to speak out on racial themes—not his preferred topic—and raised the political stakes for doing so. This week, Powell plunges in. He planned to use an hour-long CBS television appearance on Monday in New York to preach racial reconciliation. He was expected to replay a speech last year at Howard University in which he championed black pride and self-help—but also national unity. After New York, he heads to other cities with large black populations— Cleveland, Detroit, Atlanta—on the last leg of his tour.
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机译：柯林·鲍威尔将军曾经需要战场“情报”。因此，上周他从伦敦的Connaught酒店和巴黎的皇家蒙索（Royal Monceau）保持联系，在他的书游中与家中的顾问保持联系。自从辛普森（O. J. Simpson）审判中的分歧性判决以及路易斯·法拉肯（Louis Farrakhan）的《百万男人游行》（Million Man March）问世以来，他们向他介绍了消耗非内战的美国的最新情况。这些事件加剧了鲍威尔竞选总统的请求。但是，这也给他施加了压力，要求他发表有关种族主题的讲话，而不是他偏爱的话题，并为此增加了政治风险。鲍威尔本周跳水了。他计划星期一在纽约使用一个小时的CBS电视节目来宣扬种族和解。预计他将在去年的霍华德大学（Howard University）演讲中重提黑人自豪感和自助精神，同时也捍卫民族团结。纽约之旅结束后，他前往其他黑人人口众多的城市—克里夫兰，底特律，亚特兰大。
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