Word: aikman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expulsion was his coverage of the dissidents." That explains why reporting on men like Sakharov is such a complex and at times hazardous affair. Clark adds: "Correspondents and KGB agents are well known to one another, for every dissident event is well covered by both." Eastern Europe Correspondent David Aikman notes that U.S. journalists there are not only under perpetual surveillance, but in the past few weeks have suffered harassment and even physical abuse unprecedented since the invasion of Prague...
...neighboring Indochina began to wind down, riotous Bangkok students overthrew Dictator Thanom Kit-tikachorn in 1973 and ushered in a neutralist government that requested U.S. withdrawal. Then began a series of shaky coalitions assembled by groupings of Thailand's 54 parties. Now, TIME's David Aikman cabled, the collapse of Thailand's three-year experiment in democracy was received with widespread relief, for the nation had been teetering on the brink of chaos...
...this week's twelve-page section about Mao's death and China's future. (It is the fifth and presumably last time that Mao has appeared on our cover since 1949.) Hong Kong Bureau Chief Roy Rowan, who covered revolutionary China for LIFE, and Correspondent David Aikman also added the perspective of recent visits to China in their reporting. Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey interviewed Henry Kissinger on Mao. We also present an exclusive contribution from a newsman who died in 1972 but knew Mao better than any other Western reporter: Edgar Snow...
...conciliatory remarks at the conference were made by Viet Nam's Pham Van Dong -and directed toward the U.S. Dong said that his country wanted to develop normal diplomatic relations with Washington, as well as economic ties with the capitalist West. Said he to TIME'S David Aikman: "At present we see no sign of change in the situation [with the U.S.], but I think there will be an improvement in the future...
...Mediterranean for at least a decade. Until now its advances to the Arabs have been rebuffed, at least partly by Saudi Arabian suspicions of Communists and Egypt's need, in the face of massive Israeli military superiority, to acquire Soviet weapons technology. Concludes TIME Hong Kong Correspondent David Aikman: "In Peking, there must be only smiles. China has replaced Moscow as Egypt's ally, put its foot into a brand new region of the world and achieved its most significant diplomatic coup since entering...