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...York Times John Kifner fell into the same trap in a lengthy article on "Iran: Obsessed With Martyrdom" that appeared last December. "Clearly something different is afoot here," he noted with the accuity of a seasoned observer of the Middle East. "Different" means they are not like us. "Different" justifies all sorts of cultural and journalistic imperialism, to state the point strongly...
Finally, Jonathan Kifner of the Times and Julian Nundy of Newsweek admitted they were among the five detained reporters--nearly nine months after the fact Kifner claimed the entire thing had been an "embarrassing" mistake that all parties involved regretted. He added that none of the correspondents had been in danger. Yet several major publications--including Time the French newspaper Le Figaro and the German magazine Stern--reported the threats to the journalists. And other correspondents in Lebanon who knew of the affair confirmed that the Americans had their lives threatened...
Only Time magazine and The New Republic have detailed the affair without prompting by the Israelis, In an article last march, New Republic editor Martin Peretz said that in addition to Kifner and Nundy, the correspondence involved were Jonathan Randal of the Washington Post, William Farrell of the Times and William Foey of the Associated Press. But neither the Post nor the Associated Press have made mention of the abduction...
Relating the kidnapping story and its subsequent cover-up in no way constitutes an attempt to tarnish the reporting done by the journalist involved after their nightmare. Nowhere does proof exist showing that Kifner, Randal, Farrell and the others were biased in their coverage of the Middle East. But Americans has the right know about the incidental the abducted journalist reported from Lebanon at one time or another this summer during the Israelli Invasion. No one can say whether their news stories--consciously orsub-consciously--reflected the danger they knew they were...
...realized that old age would be a breach of decorum--that, like Keith Moon, he could never grow old. Sid Vicious was to rock and roll what Winston Churchill was to Western democracy, and to many of us there was not a hell of a difference in scale. John Kifner, in his often cruel and amazingly obtuse obituary in the New York Times, wrote. "Sid Vicious played electric bass and vomited," as if that epigraph could contain his short life. It was more, Mr. Kifner, much more than that...