Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Soviet authorities have been silent about Bonner's conduct. But last week for the first time, there were hints of Moscow's displeasure. Soviet Journalist Victor Louis, who often serves as an unofficial conduit for the Kremlin, said that Bonner's boldness has dimmed her chances of winning a reprieve from exile. Said Louis: "She went abroad for medical treatment, but she is seeing politicians, not doctors. Her political activities have undermined the situation. She's lost any sense of reality." After meeting briefly with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in London, Bonner dismissed Louis' remarks as "blackmail...
...what additional secrets might be let out in trying him. The CIA considers whether NBC should be prosecuted for its reporting. Reagan puts pressure on the Washington Post with a personal phone call to Chairman Katharine Graham. The CIA warns trial reporters not to delve beyond the testimony. No journalist would willingly jeopardize the nation's security, but, the CIA argues, news organizations may not always be the best judge of that. Journalists reply that the CIA has a long history of minimizing its embarrassments and concealing its failures. Continued contention is the prospect...
...guiding force behind Harvard's Conservative Club, masterminding a series of events that have ruffled the feathers of the left. But he was also one of the prime movers in the Harvard Model United Nations for four years, an academic dynamo in two disparate fields, and occasional journalist for both the Crimson and the Salient...
STOCKMAN CRAWLED up to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then a Nixon cabinet member, becoming first his babysitter and then his intellectual disciple. Stockman read everything Moynihan wrote, including his private files, and used the Moynihans to get into a seminar journalist David Broder was teaching, who in turn connected Stockman to the John Anderson team in Washington...
...houseguest, Basil Sheridan Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Fourth Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, liked to borrow a pound from the butler and later tip him with it. The title character of V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas is a version of the author's father, a West Indian journalist. Seepersad Naipaul publicly labeled the rite of goat sacrifice superstitious. He subsequently received a note in Hindi ordering him to perform the sacrifice or perish within the week, acquiesced, and then went mad. "He looked in the mirror one day," the novelist's mother recalled, "and couldn't see himself...