Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Guatemala City barracks of the Guardia de Honor, an elite army garrison. There were impassioned arguments for and against ousting Rios Montt, but gradually the plotters won. The decisive factor: the news that Sisniega Otero was once again planning to move against Rios Montt. Explains a Guatemalan journalist: "The ghost of another coup from the extreme right provoked this coup...
...book about Rose Bird, Clark's controversial colleague on the state supreme court, Journalist Betty Medsger charges, among other things, that Clark depended on his staff so heavily that he never did original work on his opinions during his two years on the court of appeals and during his first year on the supreme court. She also claims that Clark, in an unethical effort to discredit Bird, was the anonymous source for a Los Angeles Times report on Election Day in 1978 that Candidate Bird and fellow Justice Mathew Tobriner were deliberately delaying release of a controversial decision about...
...Journalist Richard Critchfield: $244,000 in 1981. "At 50," says Critchfield, "I was an aging freelance reporter who wrote about Third World villages and was finding it harder to make a go of it." The grant helped him conquer those concerns. "I'm saving the whole thing and then I'm going to live off the interest," says Critchfield. "It's income forever, and it affects your writing. It becomes freer. Your anxiety level drops...
...setup for World News Tonight. Reynolds will likely fade from our collective memory fast. Some might think this a reflection of his popularity, an indicator of the square-boy-on-the-block image he portrayed. More likely, it's testimony to his overall success on the job, as a journalist who always seemed more interested in getting across the story than in getting through the story just so he could carefully pronounce his name at its conclusion...
During a 70-minute press conference before leaving Moscow, Kohl confidently gave Soviet newsmen blunt answers every time they raised the missile issue. When one journalist began a question by proclaiming that "for the first time since World War II, plans are being made to station nuclear weapons on West German soil pointed at the Soviet Union," Kohl replied sharply: "SS-20s are deployed on Soviet territory, and they are directed at us." When another questioner said Germany had already attacked the Soviet Union twice in this century, Kohl countered that Germany was not solely responsible for starting World...