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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Northeastern suffered another setback when its high scoring star, Joy Esper (12 points) injured herself when she fell in an attempt to steal the ball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J.V. Cagers Victorious, 59-51; Ashley Tops Scoring With 16 | 1/11/1979 | See Source »

...their home offices. On May 24, a group of 80 restive correspondents, most of them French or Japanese, left Saigon on a chartered flight, taking with them film and delayed dispatches. Last week the regime made another move against the foreign press corps. Authorities ordered three U.S. reporters-George Esper of A.P. and Paul Vogle and Charles Huntley of United Press International-along with Photographer Dieter Ludwig, a West German freelancer for TIME and CBS, and four Japanese correspondents to leave the country. Now only about 20 correspondents from abroad remain, including the last three Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sealing Off Saigon | 6/16/1975 | See Source »

...newsmen appears to reflect a Communist belief that for the moment at least, less news or no news is good news. However, the P.R.G.'s public explanations have been vague. One polite official, Bui Huu Nhan, of the Committee for Foreign Affairs, told ten-year Saigon Veteran George Esper, "You have been here too long under the old regime. We want new people of our choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sealing Off Saigon | 6/16/1975 | See Source »

...Esper guesses that the P.R.G. wants to avoid comparisons that might be made by old Indochina hands between the old autocracy and the new revolutionary government. In any event, Esper thinks the government wants a minimum of watching as it deals with "problems such as crime, trying to stabilize the city and get people back to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sealing Off Saigon | 6/16/1975 | See Source »

...Viet Nam. But not all. Left free by their home offices to decide for themselves whether to go or stay, at least 80 journalists remained to continue reporting the story. Among them were three Americans who had covered the war from the start of U.S. involvement: Bureau Chief George Esper, 42, Matt Franjola, 32, and Peter Arnett, 40, all of the Associated Press. Said Arnett, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his Viet Nam War reporting in 1966: "I was here at the beginning, and I think it's worth the risk to be here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: They Stayed | 5/12/1975 | See Source »

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