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...hesitate to cancel the show. "Parfyonov has had it coming," Andrei Yegorshev, host of Obozrevatel, NTV's weekly media-review program, told TIME. "He's long been nasty to Putin personally, setting all of us up." Parfyonov wasn't the only journalist to feel the heat. Federal Protection Service (FSO) officers assaulted two newspaper journalists covering a Moscow protest earlier that day, claiming they had failed to show their press credentials. Why the heavy hand? "The regime is getting even with everyone they haven't got even with yet," argues Pavel Gutiontov, secretary of the Russian Union of Journalists. "With...
...makes an effort to get applicants from all over the U.S.; nonetheless, about three-fourths come from the Northeastern colleges in the blue blood tradition that in other years enlisted such foreign service pros as Ambassador to Czechoslovakia Outerbridge Horsey and Ambassador to Ecuador Wymberley DeRenne Coerr. The average FSO is 42 years old, earns $13,000 a year, has served two-thirds of his career abroad, can speak at least one foreign language fluently...
...FSO's Harris. The AAF asked its Flying Safety Organization to see what it could do. FSO found that the reasons for air mishaps were mostly human reasons; only 14% were due to mechanical or structural defects in the planes...
...greying locks of 39-year-old Colonel Samuel R. Harris, FSO director, were growing greyer over the problem: how to better the safety record without destroying the zip, cocksureness and daredevilish-ness of airmen bound for the battlefronts...
...FSO hopes to reduce the accident rate some 20 to 25% in the next year. But FSO's Colonel Harris puts his finger on the problem: "Take a kid full of vinegar and new flying skill, put a parachute on him and strap a shiny, powerful airplane on to him, and you have one of the finest combinations for trouble in the world...
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