Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the flowering of glasnost, some extraordinary things have begun appearing in the Soviet press. Among the more remarkable is this essay by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko, 54, published last month in the journal Literaturnaya Gazeta. Excerpts...
...secret ballot. "Party leaders who came to the meeting . . . went through some unpleasant moments," Pravda reported. In another case, the weekly magazine Ogonyok delighted its readers with a scathing satire on the back-room politics surrounding the selection of the archconservative Anatoli Ivanov, editor of the youth journal Molodaya Gvardiya (Young Guard). Seasoned Communist politicians have found themselves forced to campaign for delegate seats, most for the first time in their careers. "It was exhausting," said Vladimir Kluyev, who won a place on the delegation from Moscow's Lenin District. "A difficult process...
...that the funds amounted to a payoff to Park, who had important political connections in Seoul. Northrop allegedly paid Park, who died of liver cancer in 1985, to arrange for the Korean government to buy the company's proposed F-20 fighter plane. Had Park succeeded, the Wall Street Journal reported last week, he stood to receive $55 million from Northrop. Congress is looking into whether there was a violation of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which bars payoffs to foreign officials...
...months alone, traveling far from his home in Plantation, Fla. In March he was in Australia, demonstrating the fraudulence of channeling, which involves a supposedly long- dead sage uttering words of wisdom through the mouth of a modern-day proxy. April found him in China, invited by a science journal to help stem what the editor called "growing confusion between science and superstition." In San Francisco and Des Moines, Dallas and New York City, Randi spoke out for rationality in what he sees as an increasingly irrational world. "It's like shoveling water uphill...
...tenth-anniversary dinner for his spunky little journal, the Washington Monthly, Editor Charles Peters stood up and baptized his iconoclastic movement. "We're neoliberals," he told his disciples. That was in 1979, and since then, they have worked a quiet revolution. By exposing the dusty tenets of American liberalism to some fresh ideas and empirical questioning, Peters and his followers have helped rescue it from the clutches of interest groups, entrenched bureaucratic thinking and post-Viet Nam neuroses. Now, in Tilting at Windmills, Peters offers an amiable tract designed to elucidate what he jocularly refers to as "the one true...