Word: journalist
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...years. Three Asians served briefly between 1892 and 1929, but no black has ever taken a seat. This time three nonwhite candidates, all running on the Labor Party ticket, are expected to be among the 650 members of the new Commons. Says Marc Wadsworth, a black television journalist who is not a candidate: "Our time has come...
More militant blacks have meanwhile seized public attention with calls for affirmative action at the highest levels of the Labor Party. Journalist Wadsworth, for example, is chairman of the four-year-old Black Sections National Committee, which demands that nonwhites be named to all of Labor's decision-making groups. Party Leader Neil Kinnock, eager to soften Labor's radical image, is in no mood to bow to such demands. Nonetheless, Black Sections leaders have turned up the heat. At their fourth annual conference last March in Nottingham -- from which white journalists were banned -- delegates called for the repeal...
...Reed's viewpoint, of course, the opposite is true. Citicorp feels that continuing to view the debt problem as manageable through an endless series of interim solutions is by far the most dangerous way to handle his bank's, and perhaps the world's, economic situation. As Paris Financial Journalist Cahier wrote approvingly last week, "In the kingdom of numbers, sincerity is always rewarded." Citicorp clearly wants its rewards sooner rather than later...
...trust-nobody style while working in what he called espionage's "wilderness of mirrors," and his pursuit of Soviet agents in the U.S. and moles within the CIA, won him respect from insiders but little public notice. He has been credited with helping to expose Kim Philby, the British journalist who worked for the Soviet Union, and with acquiring the text of Nikita Khrushchev's condemnation of Joseph Stalin in 1956. In 1974, following disclosures that Angleton had directed clandestine mail-opening and surveillance schemes, then CIA Director William E. Colby demanded his resignation...
Although resigning under fire can shatter a life, a number of Reagan appointees have prospered, their alleged transgressions being considered an occupational hazard in a dirty business. Richard Allen, who resigned amid reports that he had received a $1,000 "honorarium" from a Japanese journalist after setting up an interview with the First Lady, has a plethora of Japanese and Taiwanese clients for his Washington consulting business...