Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...party for advocating "bourgeois liberalism," the purge turned last week to the president and vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who were removed from office. They had been responsible for the administration of the rebellious university in Hefei. In addition, Liu Binyan, a prominent journalist, was expelled from the party for attacking Marxism as an "outdated ideology." It was unclear how many more heads might roll, but little doubt remained that China's latest experiment in political relaxation had come to a halt...
Despite the fast-forward quality of the presidential chapters, Reagan's America is a prodigious feat of research and popular history. The author has synthesized disparate incidents and uncovered revealing data. From here on, no scholar or journalist will be able to confront the history of the '80s without stopping off at Innocents at Home to see the Ronald Reagans: the fictional and the real...
...violent radicals are not responding to calls for moderation. Notes Allister Sparks, a liberal South African journalist: "An element is emerging in the black townships of South Africa that is beyond anyone's control, an element so brutalized that it now seeks only to kill and burn in blind revenge...
...television showed pictures of slaughtered Iraqi soldiers lying face down in the muddy trenches. In Baghdad, Iraqi TV offered the same macabre programming, except that the corpses piled along barbed-wire fences were those of young Iranian soldiers. Once again the battlefront was, in the words of an Iraqi journalist, a "horrible massacre zone...
DESPITE ITS energetic style, however, Cat's Grin has some problems of structure and voice. Perhaps because of his background as a journalist, Maspero feels compelled to tell all. Jarringly, he departs from Cat's limited point of view to give the reader information which the thirteen-year-old could not possibly perceive...