Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Peking Bureau Chief Richard Hornik found particularly valuable his five years of experience as a journalist in the Soviet bloc, including an assignment as TIME's Eastern Europe bureau chief (1981-83). Says Hornik: "That background was really useful as I tried to discern how far its economic reforms have taken China from orthodox Marxism-Leninism." Stationed in Peking since April, Hornik has traveled widely: to Shanghai twice, to Canton and to Shenzhen, one of China's foreign trade and export zones. Perhaps his most absorbing trip was to the huge heartland province of Sichuan. Says Hornik: "It gave...
Twelve and a half years ago, a South African journalist asked me when a possible explosion might take place in his country. I said in 15 years. He said, "That long?" And I replied, "Of course." We are left with 2 1/2 years of my prediction, and I am not sure we have even that long...
...only other pure journalist at the forum, Richard Cohen, senior political producer for CBS News, said, however, that he empathized with the people touched by events he covered. "I was impresed by the dignity of people," who suffered, whether Poles waiting in line for food or Palestinians in Beirut, Cohen explained...
...Year with the Wellfleet Police (1982), heard about Bunting and thought there might be a story in the lawman's exploits. Their first meeting got off to an edgy beginning. Because Wilkinson was from New York City, Bunting suspected him of being a Mafia hit man. But the Yankee journalist hung around long enough to win Bunting's confidence and come up with Moonshine, an intoxicating report on free and illicit spirits...
...Spaso House briefing, who felt they were being given a warning so vague as to be meaningless. "You've told us the stuff is there, but you haven't told us where you found it or where we might come in contact with it," the husband of an American journalist protested to Charge d'Affaires Combs. Asked what precautions to take, Charles Brodine, a State Department doctor, could only suggest lamely, "Wash your hands frequently with soap and water...