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Word: kempster (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...designed to kill our sources, frighten them away," complains Nicholas Horrock, who covers national intelligence agencies for the New York Times. Horrock reports that one intelligence source has already called him to say that "he was getting uncomfortable" because of the Ford proposals. Adds Washington Star Reporter Norman Kempster: "It will take an act of extreme heroism for a bureaucrat to blow the whistle on wrongdoing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Shutting Off the Sources | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

...proved interesting enough, but there was little room for individual enterprise. Detroit News Correspondent Jerry terHorst got a banner headline back home for his account of a visit to a Peking auto assembly plant. The New York Daily News made much of the observation by U.P.I.'s Norman Kempster that "Peking looks like a working-class neighborhood in The Bronx." Even when correspondents did make prolonged contact with responsive individual Chinese, as the Times's Frankel did with some students at Peking University, the results could be unnerving. One student said the bloodshed during the recent Cultural Revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: China Coverage: Sweet and Sour | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

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