Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eleven full members is 67. Most started moving into influential positions during the 1940s and, like Reagan, formed their views then. They have traveled in the West only fleetingly if at all. Some Soviets acknowledge the problem that their leaders' age and narrowness of experience creates. Confides one young journalist: "The old leaders at the top who cling to their old ideas and to their power, that is our tragedy...
...exuberant meeting of Soviet and U.S. soldiers at the Elbe River in April 1945 faded rapidly from American minds as the U.S.S.R. moved to consolidate its control over the countries of Eastern Europe that had been liberated by the Red Army. Coined in 1946 by Herbert Bayard Swope, a journalist and sometime speechwriter for Philanthropist Bernard Baruch, the term cold war became synonymous with the tensions of the post-World War II era. During a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., in 1946, Winston Churchill provided another image for the new age. "From Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste...
...British Journalist Harold Evans is both, as Good Times, Bad Times entertainingly proves. His tale has just about everything required by the genre of self-vindication: a spurned teller, shifting affections, the whiff of conspiracy, and a villain who grows ever more interesting as the recital of his sins progresses...
...Whether or not it is true," he says, "most people you deal with assume that the secret police will find out they were talking to an American journalist, and will not cross certain conversa tional red lines. Speaking critically about President Assad can be dangerous, especially mentioning that he is a member of the power ful minority religious group, the Alawites." By drawing on the in formation of private and understandably wary sources, plus the views of diplomats in Damascus and Palestinian officials with close ties in Syria, Suro was able nonetheless to carpenter together a remarkably candid portrait...
Indeed, libel verdicts have become a telling measure of public eagerness to punish the press. According to Stanford University Law Professor Marc Franklin, since 1976 nearly 85% of 106 major libel verdicts by juries have been defeats for journalist defendants, and almost two dozen involved damage awards of more than $1 million. "Juries are the American people," says Eugene Patterson, editor of the St. Petersburg Times. "They want to punish us." The Supreme Court may share some of the mistrust. Since 1972, it has ruled against journalist defendants in all four libel appeals it has heard...