Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only Western correspondent in Baghdad when the invasion was launched. He was met there by TIME Photographer Peter Jordan, who had accompanied Brelis and Gart the week before and stayed in Iraq as the threat of invasion increased. When Iran attacked, Jordan was the only Western journalist at the scene of the fighting near Basra; he had been in the border area for two or three days. Says Jordan: "There was the odd shelling, and gradually it got closer and heavier. There was also shelling in the vicinity of Basra and the neighboring town of Abu al Khasib...
...Mario Benjamin Menendez, army commander in the Falklands, who saddened many of his countrymen when he surrendered to Britain's Major General John Jeremy Moore. Military authorities refused to allow the returning soldiers to be interviewed or photographed, but Menendez did offer a few words to a local journalist who approached him while he was drinking coffee in a Puerto Madryn hotel. "The war was very important for the country, because we can use it as experience," he said. "We may have lost a military battle over the Malvinas, but we must be prepared to fight another...
...anchor of the unique and highly acclaimed Public Broadcasting news program, the MacNeil/Lehrer Report. MacNeil has trekked around the globe as a foreign correspondent. The Canadian-born journalist began his career in London working for Independent Television News, moving on to the Reuters wire service before joining NBC in 1960. He shocked the TV news world seven years later by quiting the network and abandoning a shot at an anchor position. MacNeil said he was disgusted with NBC's news operation and that of its rivals...
...emotional reactions to these experiences--a freedom that the ethics of this craft prevented him from exercising while covering the events. MacNeil emphasizes his continuing, if somewhat ironic, fear of missing the big story, his awe for various world leaders, and his frequent fear for his personal safety. The journalist naturally has an eye for the unusual anecdote MacNeil got directions to a telephone immediately after the Kennedy assassination from a man experts now believe was Lee Harvey Oswald Rather than settle for the stock picture of political strife, he paints a vivid image of a policeman threatening to blow...
...JOURNALIST, not even this extraordinary example, spends his entire career witnessing great events in world history MacNeil explains that along with his press card, a reporter receives "a license to penetrate and intrude into the private lives and rituals of all the people of the earth." And that is what he spent most of this time doing. He "intruded" throughout Europe for 15 years, and he takes the reader on a highlighted tour of the continent. In Tangiers, he tried marijuana at the Casbali, the famous Morrocean sector of the city. He led one of the first camera crews...