Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with 76 kidnapings in 1977. Four shootings, presumably the work of political extremists, took place in Rome last week alone. A right-wing politician, suspected of participating in a fatal attack on a Communist Youth Federation member in 1976, was killed; two young leftists and the wife of a journalist working on the far-right newspaper II Secolo D'ltalia were wounded...
...sounds paranoid even to our conspiracyridden brains, but think. Remember Tanya Bunke, the East German revolutionary who had a long affair with Che Guevara? The CIA made her what she is today, having almost entirely fabricated her role in history by feeding false stories about her to an American journalist. Poor Patty Hearst somehow got brainwashed twice...
...events: the war in Indochina, the Middle East, the coup in Chile, ad nauseum. And no one would ever know what really happened. After all, if the CIA could bribe the Nieman Foundation--as it did during the '50s, when it persuaded the then curator to accept a Japanese journalist then in the employ of the intelligence agency--it has probably been able to bribe just about anyone in the media...
Anyone carrying an Israeli passport has long been a pariah in Egypt-but not this week; in fact, there was a definite advantage in being an Israeli. "Everyone has been so friendly," remarked one Israeli journalist. "And I still can't believe we're actually here and right in front of the pyramids too." Said Ehud Yarri, an Israeli TV commentator: "We had our doubts before we landed in Cairo, but when they saw the Israeli passports, they just applauded." Later, during a tour of the capital, a group of Israelis were spotted by Cairenes...
...death is a loss to understanding," wrote Editor Harold Evans in the Sunday Times, where Holden spent twelve of his 24 years as a journalist. Evans dispatched five reporters to the Middle East to look into Holden's death. In Cairo, Egyptian Interior Minister Nabawy Ismail took charge of the case at the insistence of President Anwar Sadat. Neither Egyptian officials nor Holden's colleagues know why he was killed. But most people familiar with the case agree on one point: the motive was probably not robbery...