Word: journalists
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...republics expected a disproportionate amount of attention from the West, but that has waned, and some Baltic leaders are worried that Europe and the U.S. may neglect the very countries in which economic and political reform has the best chance. "It will be a long time," says Latvian journalist Valdis Berzins, "before we live on a par with the rest of Europe...
...Balts view the issue differently: Russian migration was the means by which the Kremlin subjugated them. "Is making Latvian the official language a deprivation of human rights?" asks Viesturs Karnups, director of the Latvian Department of Citizenship. Argues Estonian journalist Tarmu Tammerk: "There is a misperception in the West. Most Russians here have come to terms with the fact that this is a foreign country...
...Irish writer Frank McGuinness finds a trove of snarky pub wit and schoolboy antics in SOMEONE WHO'LL WATCH OVER ME, which last week moved from London to Broadway with its deft West End cast -- Alec McCowen as a prissy English teacher, Stephen Rea as a dissolute Irish journalist and James McDaniel as a tightly wound American doctor. The roles recall the contrived ethnic jumble of old war movies. McDaniel, the most touchingly real, most underscores this falsity...
...Zhou] was a force of moderation for thestudent movement in 1989," said research associateRoss Terrill, a journalist and author who wasexpelled from China in September. The communistgovernment opposed Terrill's support of Chinesestudent dissident Shen Tong...
...ANYONE WHO CARES TO MEET A JOURnalist who has been happy in his work, THE SWAMP ROOT CHRONICLE (Norton; $24.95) is heartily recommended. In this peppy memoir, Robert Manning traces his career through the wire services, TIME and John Kennedy's State Department, plus 16 years as editor in chief of the Atlantic until he was sandbagged -- there seems no better word for it -- by the magazine's present owner, Mort Zuckerman. It's hard to avoid smugness when recounting one's triumphs, and the author does not always succeed. Manning got his start at the Binghamton (N.Y.) Press, which...