Word: journalistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Amin Dada, all right, shapeless thobe robes, ghutra headgear and all. The onetime President-for-Life of Uganda, who fled from his country three years ago, has lived a relatively secluded and uncharacteristically quiet existence in Jidda, Saudi Arabia. From an interview with a Turkish journalist, Leyla Umar, it is evident that Amin is as feisty and fanciful as ever. He commented on President Reagan ("I don't like him any more") and told of how his fellow Ugandans pine for his return. The former dictator shed 20 Ibs. so he could beat his offspring in swimming races...
Christian is now covering the troubles in El Salvador. In some ways the situation is similar to Nicaragua, but in important ways different. El Salvador is too violent, too confused, too changing to report except in grays. But, Christian said last week, one European journalist of her acquaintance has been reproached by his editor for not seeing more clearly in black and white the approaching and deserved victory of the guerrillas. Mind-sets again...
...fighting around the Guazapa volcano was observed firsthand by TIME Photographer Harry Mattison, the only journalist permitted to accompany the Salvadoran troops for three days during the fiercest combat. Mattison's account begins as he boards a helicopter gunship...
...COUNTRY BETWEEN US by Carolyn Forché; Harper & Row; 59 pages; $11.50 (hardback), $5.95 (paper). After winning the Yale Younger Poets competition in 1976, Carolyn Forche paid extended visits to El Salvador, working as a journalist and human rights advocate. She could not have known that land would be Topic A in the U.S. just at the time her second book appeared; thanks to that coincidence, though, some of the poems in The Country Between Us have the urgency of news bulletins...
...other union leaders of deciding in December that "the gallows have to be built" for the Communists. The union leader was personally denounced by the Polish Press Agency as a "front for the anti-Communist crusade" and a traitor to "working-class interests." In an interview with the Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci, Deputy Premier Rakowski dismissed Walesa as "an unhappy man" who "failed to live up to events...