Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first learned of the Nieman Foundation when a boyhood friend of his was granted a fellowship, and ever since, Kunene has longed "to follow my friend to Harvard." But for Kunene, the fourth black journalist allowed by the South African government to participate in the program, it has been a long wait, and his dream must have often seemed remote and unattainable...
Starting with Nobel and such other "merchants of death" as Alfred Krupp, Andrew Carnegie and the duPont family,Arms Bazaar by Anthony Sampson, a British journalist, traces the rise of the international arms market. As any good front-page journalist does, Sampson pays sharp attention to detail and leaves the analysis to more sophisticated writers. He merely tries to trace the industry point-by-point, producing an account valuable for researchers and pleasure readers...
Actually there is less to the Rolling Stone article than its length (12,000 words) would lead one to expect. Though Bernstein is the first CIA watcher to number the agency's journalist-helpers as high as 400, most of his article summarizes charges already made by other investigators. Moreover, his disclosures deal primarily with the cold war days of the '50s and early '60s. "All these issues looked very different when there was a broad consensus in American society about who were the good guys and who were the bad guys," says Robert Kaiser, a veteran...
...proud they asked me and proud to have done it. The notion that a newspaperman doesn't have a duty to his country is perfect balls." Not many colleagues would agree, but a few insisted last week that there is nothing wrong in a journalist's talking to an intelligence source. "There isn't a foreign correspondent worth his salt who hasn't frequently had lunch with someone from the CIA," said Times London Bureau Chief R.W. ("Johnny") Apple. "Of course, you hope to get more than you give." Bernstein cautions that his CIA sources...
...female names include Candy, Beverly, Loretta, Dawn, Marjorie, Adrienne and Joanne. Sybil is intelligent, Amanda is cultured and Zelda is aggressive, perhaps because of that grating z sound. Sally connotes blonde and sassy -Andersen is not sure why, but suggests that Fan Dancer Sally Rand, Actress Sally Struthers and Journalist Sally Quinn might have helped shape the image...