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...same elegant ballroom in which Charles de Gaulle had twice scuttled British applications for entry into the Common Market. Appropriately, many of the journalists who had witnessed those historic pronouncements were among the 300 newsmen who gathered at the Elysée Palace one evening last week. Seated on gilt chairs with barricades of cameramen and TV crews behind them, they waited for the appearance of Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath and France's President Georges Pompidou...
...define the conditions for British entry on London's third attempt to gain admission to the European Economic Community. One floor below, the British team, headed by Chief Negotiator Geoffrey Rippon, passed the time playing bridge and working on position papers. On the ground floor, some 200 newsmen waited amid a litter of empty beer bottles, empty coffee cups and sandwich crusts for an end to the tough bargaining session...
...gray dawn broke over Brussels, the newsmen were invited to go upstairs. "A major breakthrough?" inquired one reporter. "D'accord" replied Rippon, speaking fittingly in French. "The dialogue of the deaf is over." French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann also seemed pleased. "The results," he said, "need no commentary." Schumann added that the entire negotiations could be completed by the end of June. Since Ireland, Denmark and Norway seek to join at the same time as Britain, the Six could become the Ten by 1973-with a larger population than either Russia or the U.S. and a gross national product...
...journalists' tour was carefully staged to make the government's improbable tale at least look convincing. Army escorts for the six newsmen spared no effort to clean up, screen off or simply avoid shell-pocked buildings, burned-out Bengali settlements left by Tikka Khan's jets and tanks. On the other hand, the Pakistanis lost no opportunity to show off evidence of brutality by the Bengalis. At Natore, a town northwest of Dacca, the reporters were greeted by a "peace committee," as the army-organized pacification teams are known. The committee led the way to a nearby...
Black faces are still rare in city rooms, despite an intense search for qualified black journalists that began roughly after the Watts riots in 1965. A recent Government survey showed that only 1.5% of all newsmen on 573 dailies in 1969 were black. In recent years, many papers hired one or two "house blacks" to cover the ghetto and perhaps soothe a social conscience. Others, wanting to do more, found a lack of talented blacks: long excluded from the newsroom, many were finding better jobs elsewhere. Now both black and white newsmen are confronted by tightened editorial budgets that mean...