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...heroic forces" had done to "the racist Persian enemy." The Iranian media talked of Saddam Hussein's "collusion with Israel." Apparently counting on a quick and glorious kill, Saddam's government initially treated the war as a kind of media event, issuing visas for 300 foreign newsmen and busing many of them to Baghdad from Jordan, across 500 miles of desert...
Ominously, UNESCO's threeyear, $625 million budget, which was tabled in Belgrade last week, would fund studies into several pet UNESCO projects opposed by Western newsmen. These include a definition of "socially responsible communication" (implying criteria for news content), the "promotion of ethical principles" for journalists (feared as restricting reportorial freedom) and analyzing "the impact of advertising" (which could lead to a restrictive international advertising code). UNESCO also seems determined to push toward "special protection" for journalists-even though the MacBride report warns that this might involve setting up licensing bodies to determine which journalists should be protected...
...honeymoon period, they could not have done better than to rally around General Evren, who is described by a Western military expert in Turkey as "a father figure to his soldiers, an honest man with strong common sense." A native Anatolian, he is a stickler for rank and tradition; newsmen thought it was probably symbolic that they were carefully instructed to wear jackets and ties to his press conference last week. During the search for a new President over the past five months, Evren was suggested as a candidate but he turned down the idea, saying he would prefer...
Serious negotiations got under way on Tuesday in a reception room in the shipyard's red brick conference hall. With scores of Western newsmen looking on through a glass wall, the two teams faced each other over a long, narrow wooden table. A battery of microphones sent their voices echoing out over the shipyard's public address system; portions of the extraordinary negotiations were even broadcast over Gdansk radio...
With real news in short supply, newsmen interviewed each other. One morning Wilkie found himself surrounded by eight reporters, including representatives of the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, all picking his brain about the platform compromises the night before. On another occasion a TV crew spotted him briefing colleagues and thought he was a Carter aide. "No lights! No pictures!" shouted the mortified Wilkie as the cameramen descended...