Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Prague last week, three signers of another manifesto, the Charter '77 human rights appeal, were tried for subversion. In the dock were Playwright Václav Havel, Journalist Jiři Lederer and Theater Director František Pavliċek. A fourth defendant, Otto Ornest, had not signed Charter '77 but was accused of handing documents to a foreign diplomat and was tried with the other three...
MARRIED. Peter Boyle, 42, actor who played the monster in Young Frankenstein and Joe in Joe; and Loraine Alterman, 35, freelance rock journalist; he for the first time, she for the second; at the United Nations chapel in Manhattan...
...substitute others." Wallraff, who lives with his wife and two daughters in a working-class section of Cologne, admits to leftist sympathies. But he insists that politics do not color his reporting. "I rely on indignation, anger and my own sensitivity," he says. "My tool as a journalist is not secondhand information but what I have experienced...
...Forbath shares Conrad's feeling for this mighty, mysterious river, which rises in southeastern Central Africa, more than 1,000 miles south of the equator and about a mile above sea level, and ends 3,000 miles later in the Atlantic Ocean. Forbath first saw the river as a journalist during the Simba uprising that bloodied the Congo basin in 1964. He has spent the intervening years assembling the story of what Central Africans call "the river that swallows all rivers." The result is an absorbing, fast-paced book that deserves to stand beside Alan Moorehead's White Nile...
Another Scot, the missionary-doctor David Livingstone, reached the Chambezi, the ultimate source of the Congo, in 1867. But it remained for his "rescuer," Henry Morton Stanley, to trace the Congo from its source to its mouth. In 1874 the onetime journalist, whose "discovery" of the supposedly lost Livingstone had made him an international celebrity, set out from England on a journey to resolve the riddle of the Nile's origin and to determine if the Lualaba, which Livingstone had believed to be a branch of the Nile, was really the upper Congo...