Word: aikman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrast to Laos and Viet Nam, where party cadres have subtly tried to win popular support for social change, there are no revolutionary songs, slogans, poetry, party newspapers or "reeducation" centers to explain the purpose and ideology of the revolution. Instead, refugees told TIME Correspondents William McWhirter and David Aikman there has been a grim, silent round of purges, mass evacuations, forced labor and willful assassinations that have swept up the innocent along with the guilty...
...made himself a virtual dictator. Today an estimated 6,000 political prisoners are still in jail, including former Liberal Party Secretary-General Benigno Aquino Jr., 43, who might have defeated Marcos if elections had been held in 1973 according to the constitution. Last week TIME Correspondent David Aikman interviewed Marcos and his wife Imelda, 46, at Manila 's Malacañang Palace and sent this report...
...civilians, all but one of whom had been seized in the Central Highlands capital of Ban Me Thuot and held for 7% months. Among them were nine Americans including U.S. Consular Officer James Lewis, five missionaries and the six-year-old daughter of a missionary couple. TIME Correspondent David Aikman met the returnees in Bangkok and cabled this account of their ordeal...
...journalists never signed at all. Voice of America Reporter James B. Miller argued that he had quasi-diplomatic status and therefore could not submit to the statement. The Indians allowed him to remain-at least temporarily. TIME Correspondent David Aikman, with the concurrence of his editors, decided to leave the country rather than sign the revised pledge. Said Aikman: "If I agreed to comply with the guidelines, I would not be an honest correspondent, but if I signed a pledge I was not willing to keep, I would not be an honest...
...Western news organizations, including CBS, the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor, felt that the pledge was now "innocuous" and agreed to sign -though with some misgivings. Interpreting it differently, journalists from Newsweek and the London Times were among those who rejected the document. TIME Correspondent David Aikman refused to sign the pledge and planned to leave India voluntarily. His conclusion: the government considers even the watered-down document to be morally binding on correspondents...