Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Correspondent Sandra Burton, who wrote the box on Aquino's decision to run for the Philippine presidency, the choice was the culmination of a reporting assignment that began in 1983, when Burton was present at the assassination of Ninoy Aquino, Corazon's husband. Since that dramatic moment, no Western journalist has been more privy to Corazon Aquino's rise to power than Burton...
...SIEGE: THE SAGA OF ISRAEL AND ZIONISM by Conor Cruise O'Brien. The diplomat and journalist gives an informed and balanced account of the long and seemingly endless tragedy of Middle East politics...
Against this landscape of unremitting horror, one bright spot marked the holiday season. As darkness fell on another grim Christmas Eve in West Beirut, a black Mercedes cruised through the seaside district of Ramlet al Baida and halted 200 yards from the Beau Rivage Hotel. Out stepped French TV Journalist Aurel Cornea, 54, who had been kidnaped 9 1/2 months earlier -- along with three colleagues -- by Shi'ite terrorists of the pro-Iranian Revolutionary Justice Organization. As his captors sped off, the dazed sound technician stumbled to the hotel, where French diplomats were waiting...
...imperial Imelda, by refusing to spend more than $40 on any dress. She still prefers not to be called "Madam," an honorific she feels was stained by the former First Lady. In many ways, in fact, she seems as open as before. Upon learning that a local journalist had won a grant to study in the U.S., the President stunned the woman by calling her up to offer her an old winter coat...
Despite the furor at home and abroad, Pretoria seemed determined to press forward with the new restrictions. At week's end the government said it had detained several activists, including union members and at least one journalist, allegedly to prevent a wave of violence planned by the outlawed African National Congress. But if South African officials believe their country's race problems will disappear if a free press is unable to report them, they are only confusing the messenger with the message -- and may be underestimating their own people. As the Boston Globe observed last week, "Despots throughout history have...