Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...denied having leaked it. In Moscow, Party Spokesman Leonid Zamyatin told reporters that "your best sources would be in Rome." Ital ian Communist Party officials were equally evasive, hinting that the Kremlin might have leaked the letter to discredit Berlinguer in the eyes of hard-line party members. Panorama Journalist Carlo Rossella added to the mys tery, explaining that he had been given a translation of the letter at a surreptitious meeting in a Milan restaurant. But he refused to identify the informant...
...Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML). Founded in 1971 by an aggressive young lawyer, Keith Stroup, NORML--fueled by Stroup's vision of himself as the Ralph Nader of dope--became a legitimate lobby to be reckoned with and Stroup became a flamboyant power broker. High in America is journalist-novelist Patrick Anderson's account of NORML, the politics of pot and the rise and fall of Stroup, the man who got high for your sins...
DIED. Olivier Rebbot, 31, French freelance photographer; of injuries received on Jan. 15 when he was shot by a sniper in San Francisco Gotera, El Salvador, while on assignment for Newsweek; in Hialeah, Fla. Rebbot was the second journalist to be killed and the third to be wounded this year in the civil strife in El Salvador. Another, American Freelance Writer John J. Sullivan, is missing and presumed dead...
...Looking for a good story," aspiring Journalist Cynthia Dwyer, 49, borrowed $500 from her mother last April and caught a flight to Iran. Last week she returned with what she admits may be "the only exclusive I'll ever have." To get it, she endured nine months in a Tehran prison, a trial on espionage charges, conviction and finally deportation. Delighted to be back in Amherst, N.Y., with her husband and three children, the "53rd hostage" was saving most of her experiences for a book she plans to write. Dwyer did say that she had been duped into...
Paper Money is clear, succinct and consistently engaging about the evolution of this embarrassing and potentially bank-breaking situation. The book is quite simply the best exposition of the subject available to the general reader. This is not surprising since Goodman, a former magazine journalist, financial editor and investment manager, writes about economics as a lively art, not as a dismal science. Here he is pondering the Big Bang theory of real estate: "Why should bricks and mortar, wood and paint, increase in price even faster than inflation? It is because not only is the currency diminishing in its worth...