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...encounter was appropriately symbolic. Just as the newsmen from Hong Kong pressed their Chinese hosts, so too in broader ways has the freewheeling British crown colony from which they came. But Britain's lease on most of Hong Kong's territory runs out in 1997, and the Chinese are determined to reimpose their sovereignty. That demand has turned Hong Kong into a city uncertain of its future and worried by the lack of progress in negotiations to resolve it. But now there is at least some cause for hope. After nine months of official silence, Britain and China...
During a 70-minute press conference before leaving Moscow, Kohl confidently gave Soviet newsmen blunt answers every time they raised the missile issue. When one journalist began a question by proclaiming that "for the first time since World War II, plans are being made to station nuclear weapons on West German soil pointed at the Soviet Union," Kohl replied sharply: "SS-20s are deployed on Soviet territory, and they are directed at us." When another questioner said Germany had already attacked the Soviet Union twice in this century, Kohl countered that Germany was not solely responsible for starting World...
...officials believe that Agca was aided in the assassination attempt by three Bulgarians: two former employees at the Rome embassy and Sergei Ivanov Antonov, onetime Rome manager of the Bulgarian airline, who is now being held in a Rome jail pending the outcome of the investigation. Was Antonov involved? newsmen asked, as Agca climbed into a police van. "I knew Sergei," he replied. "He was my accomplice...
There was no evidence that Cross and Torgerson were killed specifically because they were newsmen. The grim news certainly did not long deflect reporters whose luck was still holding. The day after Cross and Torgerson were killed, a Honduran official pleaded with some journalists to stay out of the area. But Juan Tamayo of the Herald and Photographer Sill talked their way past military checkpoints and ignored bursts of nearby gunfire. They turned back only when they saw that the road ahead had been newly mined...
...Reading Evening Post. "Even if the party wins," said Craigie, "I should not think that he would stay on for long because it would be time to make way for a younger man." Asked if Foot would resign as leader if Labor lost, she replied: "Oh, yes." When newsmen queried the candidate about his wife's remarks, he seemed oddly reluctant to dispute them, though he insisted that he had no immediate thoughts of resigning. Said Foot: "I have never run away from anything in my life." That was not enough to stop the growing belief that Foot...