Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...September 1939 a fledgling journalist named Theodore H. White left Chongqing (Chungking), China's wartime capital, for Shanxi province, 800 miles away. On assignment for TIME, White journeyed to the northern region to report on a remote battlefield where Chinese troops, contrary to expectations, had been holding their lines for months against Japanese attacks. The account of his trip through the rain-sodden Chin River Valley appeared in the Dec. 18,1939, issue. "All through the valley," White wrote, "tiny Japanese garrisons were mired in mud, unable to communicate with one another and slowly starving. When off duty, simple...
...words were an open indication of the increasing strain between the French Communists' allegiance to Moscow and their loyalty to the Mitterrand government. "Pro-Sovietism is like an old shell that won't break off," said a Parisian woman who is married to a Communist journalist. "Party leaders are incapable of telling the U.S.S.R. to go to hell when they [the Soviets] do outrageous things...
...situation suggests that the better part of valor is deception. The journalist lowers a microphone from the bureau's balcony to record the racket of civil war, and dubs in a scripted battle scene that includes the voice of a Palestinian guerrilla, played by the Lebanese office manager. The effect is similar to a realistic novel whose ironic task is to trick readers into believing they are getting things as they...
Operating on the common wisdom that pro-choice groups should "know thine enemy," Boston journalist Connie Paige has written The right to Lifers, an exhaustive and occasionally exhausting account of the anti-abortion movement, Paige describes the movement at its peak, a blatant, sensationalistic drive for power. For example, "Stop the Baby killers" was a political front organization to channel money to pro-life congressional candidates in 1980. Asked about the group's name, an organizer stated, "Frankly, that was brutal, But we had to get attention or we would have lost our money...
...John Z. DeLorean is still unfolding, but the books are already starting to appear. Can the movie be far behind? Dream Maker (G.P. Putnam; 455 pages; $16.95) by Ivan Fallen and James Srodes was first in the stores. Due out next month is a more authoritative account by Detroit Journalist Hillel Levin, Grand Delusions (Viking; 336 pages; $15.95). Levin reveals that while DeLorean's sports-car company was heading toward insolvency, he charged the firm $78,100 for expenses in moving from Detroit to New York City, gave executives credit cards for Tiffany and "21" Club and acquired several...