Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hours before dawn one morning last week, a lanky, bearded young man in a rumpled blue jogging outfit dashed into Beirut's luxurious Summerland Hotel, overlooking the Lebanese coast. "I'm Charles Glass. I need a place to hide!" he fairly shouted to a receptionist. A U.S. television journalist who knows the Middle East well, Glass had been seized by Muslim Shi'ite terrorists 62 days earlier in one of Beirut's southern suburbs. Having somehow escaped, he had fled to the right place: the hotel is a heavily guarded sanctuary of Lebanon's Druze community, which is closely aligned...
Elderly movie actors have one big advantage over aging journalists. The actor may now look his age doing headache commercials, but a younger public brought up on television reruns has a live and fond memory of him at his once best. Yet when a newspaperman like James ("Scotty") Reston, 77, gives up his New York Times column after more than 30 years at it, how many outside his own craft recall the days when he was the best journalist of his time...
...newer readers may not have known that recently retired Timesman James ("Scotty") Reston was the best journalist of his time...
...return of abducted Journalist Charles Glass raises questions about whether he slipped away unaided or was permitted by his captors to escape. -- Both Iran and the U. S. hunt for mines in the Persian Gulf. -- A lone gunman brings death to a sleepy English town. -- After years of permissiveness, the Dutch are now beginning to wonder if they have gone...
Born in North Carolina, White wanted to be a journalist as long as he can remember. Since he started as a reporter with the Washington Post in 1967, he has practiced his craft with a mission in mind: "I've spent most of my career writing about what it means to be black in America, trying to translate that for a wider audience." Joining TIME in 1972, he worked first as a writer in New York, then as a correspondent in Atlanta and Boston. In 1976 White won a Nieman Fellowship and went to Harvard to study ethnic politics...