Word: newsweekly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Somewhere in Georgia this summer, Newsweek reported, a group of swimmers shore. Someone yelled, "Sharkl" and scores of people ran back to land to scour the sands for weapons. Armed with driftwood clubs and beach umbrellas, the bathers re spotted the creature, surrounded it and beat it to death. When the thing drifted motionless and the people could get a better look, they saw it wasn't a shark after all. It was only a baby whale...
...Indian journalists faced jail if they did not conform to the guidelines, but foreign correspondents, facing only expulsion, resisted. Three Western reporters, Peter Hazelhurst, 39, Tokyo-based Asian correspondent for the London Times; Peter Gill, 31, the London Daily Telegraph's man in Tehran; and Loren Jenkins, 36, Newsweek's Hong Kong bureau chief, refused to pledge submission and were hustled out of New Delhi at dawn Tuesday on a Beirut-bound Pan Am flight. The New York Times, TIME, the British Broadcasting Corp. and CBS-TV also turned down the pledge. Said Richard Salant, president...
...leaden fist by telephoning or telexing their copy direct to their home offices, or by flying out of the country to file from Beirut or Bangkok and then flying back a few days later. The Indian government, while it barred distribution of some foreign publications like TIME and Newsweek, tolerated the practice...
...left the press wondering whether the government had in effect backed down. Journalists from several Western news organizations, including CBS, the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor, felt that the pledge was now "innocuous" and agreed to sign -though with some misgivings. Interpreting it differently, journalists from Newsweek and the London Times were among those who rejected the document. TIME Correspondent David Aikman refused to sign the pledge and planned to leave India voluntarily. His conclusion: the government considers even the watered-down document to be morally binding on correspondents...
...have been obvious from the beginning that the colossal build up for Nashville would alienate people, and not just because certain aficionados consider it the height of sophistication and the mark of a properly iconoclastic sensibility to reject on principle whatever happens to be snared by the cover of Newsweek or Time...