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...talks with McGovern, Neto stressed his desire to improve relations with Washington. Why, he asked the Senator, does the U.S. continue to maintain diplomatic relations with Ethiopia, which has a large Cuban cadre, while refusing recognition to Angola because of the Cuban force on its territory? McGovern told newsmen, "I didn't have an answer for that...
...McGovern trip was also an opportunity for American newsmen to visit Angola, from which they had been barred since 1976. Correspondent Wood found that the country's teeming capital (pop. 490,000) fully reflected the serious economic problems facing Angola. His report...
...Amazing," said one of the 27Western journalists based anything in Peking. "Incredible," declared another. "There has never been anything like it." They were referring to last week's abrupt lowering of the invisible barriers in for years have prevented Western newsmen from engaging in serious political discussions with ordinary Chinese citizens. "Before this," said the Toronto Globe and Mail's John Fraser, "trying to get an idea of what the average man was thinking was akin to peering over garden walls. Now the veil has been pulled aside...
...though, have some things in common with the media, and one of them is that absolute necessity that both newsmen and intelligence officers be able to protect their sources. I know how ardently the press hold to that principle in their case; sometimes I am dismayed when they do not recognize it in ours...
...strip, the party split up as its leaders tried to decide how to get everyone in the Otter and a smaller five-passenger Cessna brought in to help take the defectors out. A slim youth boarded the Cessna. "Watch him," one of the defectors warned Ryan. The Congressman, the newsmen and most of the fleeing cultists prepared to get into the larger craft. Then a tractor pulling a long trailer approached the field. The three men standing in the trailer did not appear to be armed, but the departing cultists were terrified...