Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Haig's memoirs, to be published by Macmillan early next month, defend his record as Secretary of State and attack some officials in the White House inner circle whom he blames for his downfall. One interesting aspect of Haig's story from a journalist's point of view, says Talbott, is "the impact of journalism on people who make the news. Haig sees the press as having a key part in his biggest losing fight, against White House insiders for access to, and influence on, the President. We of the press were well aware of the struggle...
...suffered in the battle to keep Al Beida, now little more than a ghost town of rubble, from slipping back into Iraqi hands. He would have remained an unknown casualty of an equally unknown skirmish in the Persian Gulf war, if the Iraqi information officer who was leading foreign journalists on a tour of the front had not stopped to pick up a 6½-in. by 4½-in.. book found with the dead soldier. He then handed it to Iranian-born Journalist Helene Kafi. A name was scrawled inside the volume in boyish Persian script: Abbas Shahverdi...
...climax, none of the violent turns beloved by makers of films about youth. It presents a state of mind that existed when America seemed as green as Tommy and as vulnerable to the moment when, in Yeats' phrase, the ceremony of innocence is drowned. McPherson, a Washington Post journalist and winner of the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for literary criticism, might well be excused for showing the influence of the writers he reviewed for so many years. Happily, their shadows never appear. The author's imagery and style are wholly his own; from here on, it is his turn...
...gunshot wound suffered during a skirmish between government and guerrilla forces; near Suchitoto, El Salvador. Hoagland, a Central American specialist who had just been reassigned after a month's stint in Lebanon, was noted for his military knowledge and striking action photographs. He is the tenth foreign journalist killed in El Salvador in the past four years...
...Journalist Hunter S. Thompson made an appearance last month before a standing room only crowd at UCLA to present his views on the presidential election, illegal drugs and other more esoteric topics...