Word: afro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hypocritical nature of Indian foreign policy has been at last revealed to the world. It is most regrettable that a man like Nehru is allowed to get away as the "spokesman" of the Afro-Asian countries. By her bullying action the present Indian government has lost all claim to moral authority...
Worthy reported on Red China for the Baltimore Afro-American, CBS Radio News, and the New York Post. Previously, he had covered the Bandung Conference, and had written a series of stories from Africa...
...fairly mild-and wholly consistent with the network's own views. Like most other major U.S. news-gathering organizations, CBS itself has publicly protested the State Department's policy of keeping correspondents out of China. It was the only network to broadcast direct reports from the Baltimore Afro-American's William Worthy, one of the three newsmen who entered China in defiance of the ban. To top things off, on the very evening Sevareid was edited off the air, a different CBS deskman in Manhattan passed Ed Murrow's blunter criticism of the State Department...
...three--Nieman Fellow William Worthy of the Baltimore Afro-American and Phillip Harrington of Look magazine--have returned to the United States. The third, Edmund Stevens of Look, is in Moscow...
...months since the dispute began, the press had done little more than fling hot words and editorial darts at the State Department, but last week it began adding some bricks. Two U.S. newsmen who have defied the ban-Edmund Stevens of Look and William Worthy Jr. of the Baltimore Afro-American-made ready to invoke open hearings to fight the State Department's move to revoke their passports. Said Worthy, back in the U.S. after 41 days in Red China: "I want to embarrass the hell out of the State Department." The American Newspaper Publishers Association formally entered into...