Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...questions are posed by Dutch journalist and author William Oltmans, Clearly sympathetic to much of what Arbatov has to say. Oltmans rarely presses his interjector: indeed, some of his queries seem designed to dicit a response uncomplimentary to the United States. Still, this bits does little to diminish the importance of the book. Arbatov's statements are not extemparacoure the U.S. specialist was given written questions to which he formulated answers over several months. It would be a good bet to assume that Arbatov consulted with his friends on the Central Committee and that his opinions reflect those...
...appearance of greater discipline. It has urged women to wear long-sleeved dresses instead of jeans, and to use less perfume and makeup. Many Turks are irritated even by seemingly reasonable decisions, such as increased enforcement of the country's generally ignored traffic laws. Says an Istanbul journalist: "We are not a nation of 45 million small soldiers as Evren wants. We are civilians...
...Atlanta Journalist Roger Witherspoon and his wife Cynthia lost their first child, a daughter, in childbirth. A year and a half later, when Cynthia prematurely went into labor with their son Dax after only 22 weeks of pregnancy, the obstetrician warned them that the infant's lungs had almost certainly not developed enough for survival. Extraordinary measures could be tried if the parents wished to subject the baby to the process. Witherspoon's account of their decision...
...been the most popular feature in the New Republic, which, despite some occasional eccentricities is now the liveliest and best weekly journal of opinion. The elderly, courtly Strout was an anomaly on a staff of editors whose average age is under 30. Strout will be hard to replace, his journalist friend I.F. Stone says, because his thinking was firmly rooted in a "day-to-day reporter's bits of insight and vivid glimpses." Nor will Strout's lucid style, his knowledge and integrity be easily matched. Editor Hendrik Hertzberg and Owner Martin Peretz hope to find a successor...
These alone would make Heartburn a useful anthology of insults. But Ephron has another purpose. It is no secret that her marriages were more the stuff of Congreve than Cosmo. The first, to Comedy Writer Dan Greenburg (How to Be a Jewish Mother), ended in 1973. The second, to Journalist Carl Bernstein (All the President's Men), was finished shortly after the birth of their second son. Bernstein's association with an ambassador's wife had been Topic A at Washington parties. When Ephron discovered the liaison, she headed back to New York City and retribution...