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Some important facts omitted from the article: The group sponsoring the panel, E4A, is a Radcliffe organization which understands itself as having a primary responsibility to women. The event occured at Radcliffe, which remains a women's college concerned with the education of women within the Harvard community. The panel's title was "Organized Women. Unions and the Community;" our emphasis on women here was intentional...
Many Third World governments do not exactly encourage better coverage. The London-based International Press Institute, a watchdog group that monitors press freedom, reported in 1976 that 15 developing nations had expelled or refused entry to foreign correspondents in the previous year, and the rate has probably increased since then. Nigeria has booted out nearly all resident foreign journalists; the last Reuters man there was put into a dugout canoe with his wife and eight-year-old daughter and advised to start rowing toward neighboring Benin...
...exchanges lightly edited government press releases among subscribers. Roger Tatarian has proposed a joint multinational news agency that would concentrate on national-development stories. A task force of the New York-based 20th Century Fund including Third World journalists has endorsed the idea. The World Press Freedom Committee, a group of 32 international publishers and broadcasters, has raised about half of the $1 million it plans to spend training Third World journalists and technicians. American UNESCO Delegation Chief John Reinhardt, who heads the Government's International Communications Agency, this month promised the nonaligned nations a package of U.S. technical assistance...
Gadfly. Definition: a usually intentionally annoying person who stimulates or provokes others, especially by persistent, irritating criticism. Example: Sidney Wolfe, director of Ralph Nader's Health Research Group...
Poty's formula has worked well for the team. Coaches and players rave (and that's pretty much a consensus view) about this year's attitude. "This is the closest total squad group I've ever had here and a lot of that comes from what we're talking about in Steve," says Restic...