Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Testrake interview had a side effect that the militiamen had not counted on: it stirred up the crowd of foreign journalists on hand. They pressed harder for advantage and constantly confronted the rifle barrels of the angry gunmen. The most remarkable case was that of a Lebanese Shi'ite driver working for Newsweek. The driver rode onto the tarmac in a food van and, pretending to be a relative of one of the hijackers, proceeded to the steps of the plane. "Trick! Journalist!" a gunman screamed as he spotted the man's camera. As the driver fled from the scene...
...Wofford Heights, Calif., for his national-events entry, "Free Enterprise Reaches the Final Frontier," a 675-word story on the new business of rocketing the ashes of the dead into space. Cray, who graduated from Kern Valley High School in Lake Isabella, Calif., last week, is an aspiring journalist and plans to attend Santa Monica College...
...unexpected statement about his father's fate stirred worldwide interest. It also revealed the eccentric ways of the secrecy-loving clan. As reporters gathered outside the office of Munich Architect Jens Hackenjos, young Mengele's stepbrother, Hackenjos sent his wife Sabine, accompanied by Herbert Bauermeister, a free-lance journalist, to inform newspeople that her husband had already handed over Rolf's statement to German wire-service agencies. At his own apartment Hackenjos opened his door just a crack, checked identifications, prohibited photographs and demanded that the handful of journalists he admitted give him receipts for copies of the statement...
DIED. Max Ways, 79, veteran Time Inc. journalist, first at TIME (1945-59) as editor of the foreign and national news sections, then at FORTUNE (1959-72) as a member of the board of editors and associate managing editor, who - brought his versatility, sense of history and steady vision of the national interest to bear on some of the most complex political and economic issues; of a heart attack; in New York City...
DIED. Henry Beetle Hough, 88, journalist, author and environmental conscience who owned, edited and published the Vineyard Gazette, one of America's best country weeklies, from 1920 to 1968 and continued as its editor almost until his death; in Edgartown, Mass., on the offshore island of Martha's Vineyard. Hough's often poetic descriptions of everyday island events and the passing seasons, and his fervent quest to protect the Vineyard from mindless development, brought a steady growth in readership, while his popular book Country Editor (1940), followed by 21 novels, histories, children's tales and collected pieces, spread his fame...