Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Western correspondents. According to the briefings, Shcharansky was charged with turning over to the West "classified data on the location, staffing and role of a large number of defense-industry installations." Specifically, he was accused of providing scientific secrets to a Western military-service agent masquerading as a journalist...
...students are lectured on politics and history by Hebrew University faculty members, then tutored by Jerusalem Post staffers on news reporting. Their grades are partly based on the quality and number of stories they get published back home. Says Director Elaine Littell: "This program challenges the would-be journalist with almost every problem he is likely to encounter-language barriers, a volatile political system, some censorship, uneasy and unfriendly borders...
...trainee at the elite investment firm of Blyth Eastman Dillon to owner of a multimillion-dollar real estate investment company. Says he: "I believe in meritocracy. Any place where you can be fired in 20 minutes is a great place." Adds Swiss-born Pierre Honegger, 34, a former journalist who three years ago bought a foreign-car dealership in Princeton, N.J., and has tripled its sales: "If you work hard and have a good idea, you have a much bigger reward than in Europe, where everything is superorganized, and traditional business has cornered all the markets...
...Lasky Syndrome enters here: in his bestselling book last year called It Didn't Start with Watergate, the muckraking conservative journalist Victor Lasky detailed prior presidential offenses-what he says were Franklin Roosevelt's uses of the FBI to dig up scandal on his enemies and to tap the home phones of his top advisers, the spectacular array of extramarital affairs that Jack Kennedy paraded through Camelot, the Kennedy wiretaps on Martin Luther King Jr., and so on. Why was only Nixon driven from office for his offenses when he had such precedents for misbehavior? The three articles...
...deceived bull would mount it, and the results-as the Biennale catalogue noted, with the usual clarity of Italian art criticism-would touch "the central core of the present evolutionary-involutionary crisis." Finding the proposed event "degrading" (degrading, that is, to Pinco rather than art), one radical Italian journalist shot off a wire to the Italian equivalent of the A.S.P.C.A., demanding that the spectacle be stopped. It was, he said, "an exploitive example of coerced masturbation." The police came, and a compromise was finally reached. The mucca finta was trundled in, and Pinco would be allowed to mount...