Word: editor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...space for 100,000 words," says Senior Writer Robert Hughes, who is writing about the colonization of Australia by convicts in the 18th century. Correspondent Neil MacNeil turned to history in a recent monograph, The President's Medal, 1789-1977. For others, contemporary events have provided subjects: Associate Editor David Tinnin's forthcoming I, Terrorist examines the motivations of terrorists; Correspondent James Willwerth's new Badge of Madness is about the breakdown of one New York policeman...
...receive 32% of the territorial income. The Marianas also eagerly accept all kinds of federal aid, including free medical care and bulk food grants of commodities like wheat. "It's sort of a welfare state," says silvery Erwin Can-ham, the Marianas' resident commissioner and a former editor of the Christian Science Monitor, who will return to the U.S. later this month. "If I tried to eliminate the free surplus commodities, I'd have a lynch mob down here...
...political dissenters last October transformed South African Journalist Donald Woods into one of his country's silent men. In retaliation for his antigovernment editorials. Woods, 44, was "banned" for five years-which means that his movements were severely restricted, he was prohibited from returning to his job as editor of the East London Daily Dispatch and prevented from speaking with more than one person (except for family members) at a time. Government agents read his mail, bugged his home and phone, and kept him under general-if irregular -surveillance...
...Trib has a fresh, modern look, and its newsroom is equipped with the latest in computer terminals, on which copy is fitted and transmitted to its New Jersey printing plant. The slim editorial staff of 77 includes two Pulitzer prizewinners, Managing Editor Fred Sparks and Art Critic Emily Genauer. With only a single bureau-one man in Washington -the new paper will rely heavily on United Press International and Reuters for national and international stories. Its resemblance to the old Herald Tribune is largely in name only, and even that is in dispute. The owners of the International Herald Tribune...
DIED. Max Ascoli, 79, educator, author and editor of the Reporter, a distinguished but now defunct fortnightly journal of ideas; in Manhattan. An Italian antiFascist, Ascoli was jailed briefly under Benito Mussolini's regime and immigrated to the U.S. in 1931. The Reporter, which he founded in 1949, ran vigorous stories criticizing the China lobby, McCarthyism and governmental misuse of wiretapping. As staunchly anti-Communist as he was antiFascist, Ascoli supported the growing U.S. involvement in Viet Nam during the '60s, thereby alienating many liberal readers and leading to the demise of his magazine...