Word: journalistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter was both daring and provocative. One factor that allowed him to take such a stand is that he is a lame duck: he has pledged to step down as Foreign Minister once a Cabinet approved by parliament is named. In an interview for TIME with a Tehran-based journalist, Ghotbzadeh last week spoke with unusual candor about his suspicions of Soviet intentions, his skepticism about the prospects for Raja'i's government, and other matters. Excerpts...
...Coleman, 28, is the youngest senior editor at Simon & Schuster. The newly published Changing of the Guard is his project. He arrived at the firm three years ago, after working at Knopf as a $220-a-week publicist. During that time, he had met David Broder, the Washington Post journalist...
...advance on the basis of an eight-page outline covered by a rousing memo from Coleman. The editor's immediate problems: the book had to be ready for the 1980 presidential elections, and Broder had to meet the deadline while holding his time-consuming job as a journalist. Coleman kept the pressure on with phone calls every week. Chapters and suggestions circulated through the mails, and an entire draft was completed just after Labor Day, 1979. Coleman read it and a few weeks later checked into Washington's Jefferson Hotel, where for a week of 18-hour days...
...prisoner released from detention last week was U.S. Journalist Mary Helen Spooner, who spent six days in jail after being charged with defaming the new regime. She was freed and expelled to Peru, after the intervention of two British publications for which she writes...
Stories about Johnson's coarse man ners could ruffle the pages of Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel. The wildest is repeated by Coates Redmon, a Washington journalist and widow of Hayes Redmon, a member of Johnson's White House staff: "One day Bill [Moyers] telephoned him [Hayes] to come quick to the President's bedroom. I think Lynda Bird was in there, and Mrs. Johnson, and Marie Fehmer was taking dictation. The President was lying on his side in his bed and facing the group. There was a nurse on the other side, the three television...