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...week after the new regulations went into effect, many foreign journalists continued to be baffled by them. "We still are not certain where the boundaries really lie," said Michael Buerk, a correspondent for the British Broadcasting Corporation. After two black men were killed by police outside Cape Town, early police reports and accounts provided differing versions of how the incident started. Reporters pointedly reminded readers and viewers that the new restrictions made it difficult to confirm their stories. In Johannesburg, the Foreign Correspondents Association strongly denounced the restrictions. The F.C.A. warned that forcing the media to operate within such stringent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Uncertain Limits | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...response from the West has again been generous. Last week BBC Correspondent Michael Buerk, whose reporting first alerted the world to the scope of the last famine, led an appeal that raised $650,000 in five days. Weeks before the latest drought attracted publicity, the major private food- aid agencies -- the Red Cross, Oxfam, Caritas, Care and Catholic Relief Services -- were shipping food by sea and air and distributing it to the needy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Famine Hunger stalks Ethiopia once again - and aid groups fear the worst | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

...Turner 9-2--20; Mike Waitkus 5-3--13; Darren Brady 4-0--8; David Visscher 0-0--0; Greg Gore 0-0--0; Marcus Thompson 1-0--2; Tom Chaney 0-1--1; Anthony Katsaros 2-0--4; Sean Moran 0-0--0; Todd Buerk 0-1--1; Domenec Taylor 0-0--0; Ty Smith 0-0--0. Total...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Brown Rips Cagers | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...JOHN BUERK...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 20, 1959 | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

Last week about two dozen workers for Germany sailed from Manhattan aboard the liner St. Louis. A steward surveyed the group, explained to newsmen: "Rückwanderer, or going-back people." One was reticent, middle-aged Kurt Stache of Milwaukee, who declined to discuss Eugene Buerk. "He is not coming back-he cannot talk," explained a companion. An ornamental iron worker from Chicago paid all his own fare so that he would be free to return if Nazi Germany is not so rosy as letter-writing relatives paint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Going-back People | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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