Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Islamic Jihad, the extremist group that held Jacobsen, still holds two Americans, journalist Terry A. Anderson and educator Thomas Sutherland. It said last year it killed U.S. diplomat William Buckley, 57, but no body was found. Lebanese Shiite and Western intelligence sources have said Buckley may have died earlier...
...ARRIVED in Managua way ahead of schedule and in no time had direct contact with powerful members of the government. A journalist's dream, in a sense...
...Theatre served as an oasis and a seedbed for ideas," Nora Sayre, a journalist and drama critic, told the audience. "It was a home for writers and performers when artists were considered oddities...
...tends to shout down other guests. Indeed, a mountaineer who has known him for years thinks fame has been hard on a man who finds peace in solitude: "Everyone wants to get in touch with him. Everybody wants to shake his hand." He is divorced from West German Journalist Uschi Demeter, and lately, says one Messner watcher, "it seems there is a different woman in every base camp...
After the war Wiesel settled in France, where he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, worked as a journalist and came under the influence of Albert Camus and Francois Mauriac. His first novel, Night (1958), was an indelible account of the Nazi atrocities as seen through the eyes of a teenage boy. The hell inside the death camps is described in austere, intense prose that became the author's emblem: "Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night . . . Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget...