Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...investigating charges that Sharer or other Schiavone investigators used illegal wiretaps against the Senate committee. The inquiries came after Frank Smist, a University of Oklahoma graduate student, gave federal officials information about the case he had gathered during a two-year study of congressional investigations. Smist and a Washington journalist said Sharer admitted using an "infinity transmitter," which makes it possible to listen in on bugged conversations illegally from a distant phone. Sharer denies that he engaged in wiretapping but charges that another Schiavone spy did so. He says he will turn over his tapes to the FBI. Schiavone...
...scheme allegedly worked out between Brant and Winans in October had at first gone smoothly. The journalist would call the broker from a pay phone near the Journal's newsroom in lower Manhattan to alert him to upcoming stories. For instance, on Oct. 26 Winans told Brant about a negative story that was due to appear on Commodore International, the home-computer maker. By selling the stock short, Clark made a profit of $134,671.79. Not all the trades were successful, though. When a favorable story on oil service stocks, including Schlumberger, failed to move the stock higher, Felis...
DIED. John Betjeman, 77, poet laureate of Britain whose whimsical light verse and nostalgic odes to genteel Edwardian England won him uncommon popular success; in Trebetherick, Cornwall. The son of a prosperous businessman, Betjeman flunked out of Oxford and worked in a variety of jobs, from journalist to insurance salesman, before his Selected Poems (1948) won the prestigious Heinemann Award. Critics were divided on Betjeman's poetry; many found it trivial or derivative, perhaps because of its simple musical rhymes and accessible themes. An astute architectural critic, he waged passionate campaigns to preserve England's historical treasures...
...executive producer of the show, Stringer is expected to be a key witness in CBS'S defense, but his taped words seem to contradict what he said about Crile in a deposition for the case. Under oath Stringer testified, "I think he's a careful journalist...
...because she peppers them with endless questions, shifts moods in a matter of seconds and demands that everyone keeps up with her. She admits, "My biggest goal right now is to avoid being judgmental. But I am intolerant of people who don't move at my pace." Says Journalist Pete Hamill, with whom she lived for almost seven years: "I don't think of Shirley as a person who relaxes." Another former lover, Soviet Director Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky (Siberiade) observes, "Shirley is a missile with self-correction of trajectory and a powerful engine...