Word: journalistic
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Shortly after the assassination attempt, Agca told Italian authorities that following his 1979 escape from an Istanbul prison, where he was being held on charges of murdering a prominent Turkish journalist, he had stopped in Bulgaria on his way to Western Europe. While in Bulgaria, he said, he had bought the Belgian-made Browning 9-mm semiautomatic pistol that he used in his attempt on the Pope's life...
Blood River makes no attempt to whitewash the repressive regimes in Pretoria. But it is one of the few volumes that attempt to understand the descendants of settlers who were themselves the despised and disenfranchised people of the veld. American Journalist Barbara Villet, whose photographer husband grew up in a suburb of Cape Town, starts her journey in modern South Africa, then begins "trekking away from time" back to the 17th century, when a group of Dutch Calvinists sets out for Cape Town. The tiny white minority see themselves as a new chosen people, driven by religious fervor and economic...
What lay behind Korniyenko's initial outburst? Soviet officials explained, with some embarrassment, that Korniyenko had simply been spouting on his own. Said a Soviet journalist: "It was a bureaucratic screw-up." Perhaps. Although Soviet trade officials were taking the American businessmen aside last week and telling them to ignore Korniyenko's speech, no one could be sure that it had not been intended as a deliberate warning that, however much Andropov may want to ease tensions with the U.S., he will not do so at the cost of abandoning fundamental Soviet policies...
Such a move may not make much of a difference to most Poles. The government will probably still have the power to keep opposition leaders in detention and militarize industrial plants. As a former Warsaw journalist wryly observes, "It is like a man with a knife asking for your watch in a dark alley. You can give it to him when he asks for it, or you can give it to him when he puts a knife to your throat. The authorities have lowered the knife, but they still want the watch...
...major issue," says the Rand Corporation's Thane Gustafson. Careers will be made or broken and alliances concluded or undone over new proposals to revitalize the economy. But change will not come easily. Brezhnev's most unwelcome legacy has been the debacle down on the farm. Says a Soviet journalist: "The new man in the Kremlin will have instant popular support if he can solve the food problems." But unless truly radical changes are made in the centrally planned collective farm system, agriculture is probably doomed to remain the disaster area of the economy...