Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biographies of Lyndon Johnson accuse him of both worldly corruption and spiritual hallucinations. Journalist Ronnie Bugger, for example, cites L.B.J.'s vivid conviction that he was talking regularly to the Holy Ghost-in person, like Joan...
Some Chinese have fared far worse. Senior Journalist Li Guangyi, 64, was recently sentenced to five years in prison for "leaking important state secrets." Among them: the time, place and agenda of an upcoming meeting of the plenary session of the Communist Party Central Committee. Last month two European journalists browsing in downtown Peking's stamp mar ket were startled when two plain-clothes policemen emerged from the crowd of shoppers to arrest the dealer who had just sold them a $5 stamp. The dealer had probably defied an earlier warning not to sell to foreign customers...
...reverse the thrust, the pilot can cause his plane to decelerate rapidly and veer to the side. "You want to smash through the canopy, but the harness tightens over your shoulders, holds you down at the waist. You think you are stopping at 12,000 ft.," wrote British Journalist John Edwards, who was given a demonstration ride in a Harrier last week. In combat, a sudden viff usually causes a pursuing fighter to overshoot. Explains one veteran Harrier pilot: "From being the attacking aircraft, it becomes the attacked...
...some strikers received pink slips. But the Poles show little sign of yielding to this kind of government pressure. Churches throughout Poland have become collection points for food and supplies for families of the unemployed and imprisoned. There have been no problems finding volunteers to make deliveries. One unemployed journalist with two small children opened his apartment door one day to find a total stranger bringing him a box of diapers, nursing bottles and baby powder. Said another intellectual, now out of work: "This aid is crucial since it means that we cannot be pressured into taking bad jobs...
King relates his backstage odyssey in the voice of vintage Slim Pickens. When Songwriter Carol Hall and aspiring Director Peter Masterson, both fellow Texans, want to turn his story of the "Chicken Ranch"-a LaGrange, Texas, bordello closed by politicos-into a musical comedy, the financially troubled journalist promises himself to do "big work." But, as he admits, "whether a musical about a whorehouse made the weight" is debatable...