Word: journalists
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Soviet brutality and blatant disregard for human rights was sharply brought into focus yesterday when Moscow security police beat and arrested CNN's Moscow bureau chief for "assaulting a Soviet citizen." The Kremlin must be complimented on its novel way of describing a journalist watching a refusnik protest. For most Russians, such incidents are a part of everyday life...
...contends Jacoby. His examples include the case of Paul Starr, 38, who rose quickly at Harvard, then was denied tenure after winning a 1984 Pulitzer Prize, the first ever awarded a sociologist. Grumbled a former departmental chairman of such popular repute: "If I want to be a free-lance journalist, then I should quit Harvard and go be a free-lance journalist...
...story of his 72 years with almost none of those disadvantages. His best-known works are for the stage, a collaborative medium and, in his view, one meant to arouse passions. His plays have frequently been topical, occasionally incendiary, and he researched them with the fervor of an investigative journalist. Opinionated and outspoken, he relished the platform that his fame provided and undertook a running battle with McCarthyite elements in Government. They retaliated by stripping him of his passport, summoning him before the House Un-American Activities Committee and trying him for contempt of Congress for refusing to denounce fellow...
...emphasized that this openness did not mean that a foreign journalist could be any less careful of the potential pitfalls of life as an outsider, as the 1986 arrest of U.S. News and World Report correspondent Nicholas Daniloff '56 for espionage demonstrated...
...veteran journalist, who was a Nicman fellow in 1973, was the Moscow bureau chief for U.S. News and World Report from 1980 to 1986. Before that he was a Moscow correspondent and national security reporter for United Press International...