Word: journalist
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...then allowed the country to stagnate in poverty, Linh plans to raise his country's standard of living by streamlining the bureaucracy, cracking down on corruption and expanding trade with the West. He is also eager to improve relations with the U.S. In a rare interview with a Western journalist, Linh last week outlined his plans to TIME Bangkok Bureau Chief Dean Brelis. Excerpts...
...with watching political battles. The 1988 presidential campaign is Shapiro's third as a journalist. He wrote about politics for the Washington Post from 1979 to 1983, covered the presidential jockeying for Newsweek from 1983 until 1986 and now does so for TIME, which he joined last March. Shapiro enjoys observing the aspirants and savors the unexpected, such as Gary Hart's departure from the race. "That's the wonderful thing about politics," says Shapiro. "You never know...
...this week's TIME poll on the candidates, crossed paths with Shapiro in Houston during the Democratic candidates' debate there in July. This early in the campaign, however, Shapiro and Barrett prefer to complement rather than duplicate each other's work. Being on the hustings always satisfies both the journalist and the graduate student in Shapiro. "It's a great opportunity to write about grand themes and also to be a bit irreverent," he says. "After all, if you can't be irreverent about the people running for office, whom can you be irreverent about...
...foreign shopping bender signals a major transformation in America's global economic role. For nearly four decades following World War II, the U.S. did the buying, savoring its role as the globe's foremost exporter of capital. U.S. investment power was so great that in 1968 French Economics Journalist Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber predicted that American multinational companies like IBM and ITT threatened to turn Western Europe into an economic province. Concern about foreign cash flowing into the U.S. arose briefly in the 1970s, when a weak U.S. dollar and the emerging clout of OPEC prompted fear of an Arab...
...years after his father's death, Mswati has finally shown that he can use his full regal powers with a vengeance. So far this year he has arrested a dozen high Swazi officials, including five members of the royal family, on suspicion of sedition and treason. Says a Swazi journalist in Mbabane, the capital: "Mswati is clearly angry at the intrigue that took place following his father's death and is determined to put things right...