Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Macoutes, the paramilitary force employed by the Duvaliers and officially disbanded by the Namphy junta, though never disarmed. Last week several well-known henchmen had come out of hiding, and were walking the streets again in broad daylight. "The return of the Tonton Macoutes is total," said a Haitian journalist...
...Gorbachev's smiles. Brokaw's behavior was remarkably self-effacing, and for the occasion quite appropriate. It was a welcome relief from those television news performers who through hyperconfidence or gall treat everyone they face as their intellectual equals (or perhaps inferiors). After all, a meeting between a television journalist and the Soviet dictator is not a battle of the giants...
Wall Street and Broadcast News have enough acid wit to recall the sophisticated screwball comedies of the '30s, but their subject is greed, '80s style. Charlie Sheen and William Hurt play an avid stockbroker and a laid- back TV journalist who have nothing on their minds but headlong success. Listen to their gaudy argot ! Watch them in perpetual motion ! They' ll be back at Oscar time...
Kalb may recognize this problem in his debates.Even as he jibed with Simon over bow ties andbooks, Kalb seemed to want to move away from thepersonal issues that have dominated the campaign.Before the cameras went live yesterday afternoonand before the former television journalist openedwith his question about hearing aids, Kalbreminded the Kennedy School audience to stay awayfrom "mushy" questions
...cars skidded to a halt near Beirut's Summerland Hotel. Two men, dazed and disheveled, emerged. They turned out to be Jean-Louis Normandin, a French television technician who was kidnaped in March 1986, and Roger Auque, a journalist seized last January. Normandin had been held by the pro-Iran Revolutionary Justice Organization, but Auque's abductors may have belonged to another group...