Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dock were five Frenchmen-a journalist, two policemen and two secret agents-and one small-time Moroccan police operative. All were charged with either participation or complicity in the kidnaping. The two most wanted men were out of reach of French law. They were Morocco's Interior Minister Brigadier General Mohamed Oufkir and his deputy for secret-police matters, Ahmed Dlimi. Witnesses named them as the Moroccans who had met Ben Barka at the villa. King Hassan flatly refused to hand them over for trial. In fact, he had been working feverishly behind the scenes to block the proceedings...
...French anecdote about the Englishman who, having crossed the Channel for the first time, lands in Calais and observes that the first woman he meets has red hair, and thus quickly concludes that all French girls are redheads. He is a good example of the Soviet journalist...
Self-Doubt & Hatred. Young Robbie Frost was a spoiled brat almost from the day he was born in San Francisco in 1874. His father was a hard-drinking, Harvard-educated journalist who beat Rob often. His mother indulged the boy, taught him to love poetry and nature; she was a devout Swedenborgian who believed that she had religious visions. It was her influence, says Thompson, that encouraged Robbie and his sister Jeanie to withdraw into a private world as children...
...Greek journalist written the same words, few people would have paid any attention. But Sulzberger not only enjoys special prestige as an out sider; he has reported knowledgeably on Greek politics since World War II, and has access to good sources, including the King. The left was roused to a fury it has not shown since the summer rioting of 1965. "Any persons who may contemplate setting up a dictatorship here," bellowed the elder Papandreou, "should know that the people, the army and even the rocks in the streets will rise to crush their heads." Editorialized the pro-Communist newspaper...
...Sulzberger, disguised as a distinguished journalist, tries to conceal his identity as an international provocateur." And even the conservative daily Kathimerini suggested that the King should refrain from talking to" foreign journalists. Sulzberger, however, was not fazed: "I'm never really too surprised at anything that happens in Greece," he said. "They are an imaginative people and take their politics seriously...