Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advantage: he begins with the sympathy of the Indian people. Indira Gandhi, who had been a shy young woman, was never really trained to succeed her powerful parent, any more than Rajiv was. But in time she became a world figure who could still communicate with her people. One journalist who accompanied her on a trip a few years ago remembers how Mrs. Gandhi, when she visited a group of Harijan (untouchable) women who had been raped by men of a higher caste, sat down on the ground and listened to their stories. But she could be caustic and ruthless...
...help. I had been wandering around the ground floor of the rectory of St. Stanislaw Kostka in Warsaw attempting to interview recipients of Western aid distributed by the Catholic Church. Jerzy Popieluszko, painfully frail and thin, introduced me to his parishioners, calming their fears about talking to a Western journalist. It was only a few months after the imposition of martial law, and the national spirit that had soared during the heyday of Solidarity had been crushed by Polish soldiers and police...
...spruce up their image. Radio Peking broadcasts 18 hours of programming daily to Eastern Europe, and the quality of the languages spoken by Chinese broadcasters has improved, as has the content of the programs. "It used to be just propaganda a few years ago," said an East European journalist. "But now the picture we have of China from radio broadcasts is really very like the way China...
...implies that Schanberg, when he began reporting from Southeast Asia, may have borrowed some of his reportorial manner from newspapering yarns. Brave, adversarial in his relations with the American mission supporting the Lon Nol government, unaware of how brutal the Khmer Rouge is, he is the classically impatient American journalist, overriding his better instincts in order to get the story. Those include, in Waterston's fine performance, the hint of a pervasive, unexamined melancholia that is far more common in life than it is in the movies. The picture leaves no doubt that if Schanberg had heeded the subtler...
...foregoing quotation is a complete paragraph in the report (copyrighted by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate and the interviewer) of a thoroughly friendly interview of candidate Reagan by freelance journalist Angela Fox Dixon, whose mother was Reagan's drama coach at the Warner Brothers studio. (The report was reprinted in The Washington Post on page E5 on July...