Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...project: "The object was to devote an entire issue to one subject that people actually knew very little about and at the same time to retain the newsmagazine approach." Before writing the main story, Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott made his sixth visit to the U.S.S.R., becoming the first Western journalist to tour the Central Asian republics after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The bulk...
...under a sea of red flags, was a group of men who used to gaze down on such manifestations from an elevated platform: the entire eleven-member Polish Politburo, hatless in spite of the light drizzle, occasionally smiling at the gaggle of photographers around them. Said one startled Polish journalist: "This is the greatest sign of renewal they could have given...
...ugliness of Vietnam was unique for those who fought it. The answer (if there is one) to the question of what made Vietnam different may not be answerable in a work of non-fiction; perhaps it requires a leap of imagination not within the reach of the historian or journalist. This book, alas, does not even...
DIED. Reuben Maury, 81, soft-spoken lawyer-turned-journalist who wrote hard-hitting, influential editorials for the New York Daily News from 1926 to 1972, lecturing readers on the dangers of Communism and bad grammar, lampooning public figures and once describing U.N. headquarters as "a glass cigar box jam-packed with pompous do-gooders, nervy deadbeats, moochers, saboteurs, spies and traitors"; of pneumonia; in Norwalk, Conn. Schooled in controversy, Maury spent the early 1940s simultaneously turning out anti-interventionist, anti-F.D.R. tracts for the right-wing News and pro-interventionist, pro-F.D.R. views for the editorial page...
...full-day conference--open to the general public--will offer strategy sessions and workshops aimed at organizing a grass-roots movement which could forestall the referendum item on the 1982 state ballot. Flora Haas, a journalist and an adviser to the new coalition, said this week...