Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's speech used stern words to criticize the Soviets, not only for their treatment of Daniloff, an American journalist arrested in Moscow, but also for their treatment of civilians in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan and their insistence on supporting Marxist-Leninist insurrections around the world...
...devotion to family was instilled in the Tisch brothers early on. Says Washington Journalist Elizabeth Drew, a first cousin: "They have been unshakably close since their boyhood." The boys grew up in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Their father owned a small boys' clothing company as well as two summer camps in New Jersey. After graduating from N.Y.U. at 18, Larry earned a master's degree in industrial engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1946, after his brief stay at Harvard Law School, Larry and Bob persuaded their father to help them buy a Lakewood, N.J., resort hotel called Laurel...
...according to Journalist Ken Auletta, Wyman telephoned Tisch at his Manhattan offices down the block from CBS headquarters and chatted about the Turner bid. By the end of July Tisch had accumulated a 7% stake in the communications company. Even as the Turner threat waned, Wyman apparently continued to feel insecure about further raids on the corporation. He prodded Tisch to buy more CBS stock, up to 25%, and by mid-October last year Tisch had agreed...
...news division's rancor had focused on Sauter, an 18-year CBS veteran who climbed from news division president to executive vice president of the Broadcast Group, but who also took back the news division title after the incumbent president, Edward Joyce, was shunted aside last December. CBS journalists were scathing about the role they felt that Sauter, a former journalist, had played in adding dollops of entertainment value to the news side. In particular, he drew scorn for hiring Phyllis George, a onetime Miss America, as an anchor for the ailing Morning News; George was later yanked. Said...
...imprisonment of Nicholas Daniloff, which jeopardized the prospect of a summit meeting between President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. The cause seemed absurdly disproportionate to the possible effects: the FBI arrested a Soviet scientist who almost unquestionably was engaged in espionage, and the KGB retaliated by entrapping a U.S. journalist in Moscow who just as unquestionably...