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...have cost the lives of at least 110 civilians in the past 18 months. Last week's show of muscle was preceded by a campaign of intimidation at nearly every civilian level. Police made scores of arrests of leftist political and labor leaders. A government spokesman informed foreign newsmen that their credentials had been canceled and that they would have to apply for new ones...
...assigning blame and guilt solely to military men for the tragedy of the illegitimate Amerasian children [NATION, Sept. 24], you overlook the thousands of newsmen, civilian contractors, Government employees and merchants who flocked to Viet Nam in pursuit of the dollar...
...York City, newsmen raced to keep up with the story of Archie, a dog beloved by Mayor Edward Koch that unexpectedly vanished for three days from the mayor's official residence-and was welcomed back at a city-hall news conference. In Washington, the national press corps reported that a White House cricket, which had disrupted Nancy Reagan's sleep, chirped no more...
LAST YEAR the Peruvian writer had a chance to play this part himself when he headed a commission investigating the deaths of eight newsmen. The journalists had died trying to make contact with the kind of fanatics Vargas-Llosa doesn't like, the violent Maoist guerrillas of Peru's "Shining Path" group. Like the nearsighted reporter, Vargas-Llosa view of the ideologically motivated rebels of Canudos and elsewhere is that they offer not redemption, but damnation to an earthly life of violence and suffering. All we can do is record the events and to pray that they don't happen...
Krim's four-story East Side residence was so mobbed by newsmen and TV technicians during the breakfast that police were forced to close the block to automobile traffic. As the closed meeting wore on, the mood outside grew slightly surreal; the two candidates' press secretaries, Maxine Isaacs and Kathy Bushkin, appeared on a second floor balcony at one point and tossed flowers to the crowd below. When Mondale and Hart finally emerged, they tried hard to convince their audience that the hatchet burying ritual had indeed been genuine. Said Hart, carefully using Mondale's nickname: "Fritz...