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Last year the award was won by an independent Polish journalist and organizer of the underground press. Other past recipients include Zwelekhe Sisulu, editor of New Nation of South Africa, and CBS correspondent Edward R. Murrow...

Author: By Michael P. Mann, | Title: Colombian Journalists Awarded Nieman Prize | 9/14/1990 | See Source »

Last month, Polish workers returning home from Iraq reported that about 35 Americans were brought to the chemical plant in Al-Qaim on Aug. 17 under guard. It was not known whether any Westerners are still being held as human shields at the plant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Iraq Seeks Closer Ties With Ex-Foe Iran | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...Edgehill Newport hospital, Four Winds hospital and the emergency room of the Brigham and Women's Hospital, to which she was rushed after ingesting ^ rubbing alcohol. By the time the book was nearly finished, so was Kitty; home for Christmas in 1989, she was drinking nail polish remover, after-shave, hair spray, anything she could get her hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Public Life, Private Trouble | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

Even the currently troubled Donald Trump has allegedly paid his Genovese dues, perhaps unwittingly. Last month Trump took the stand in Manhattan's federal court to deny that he knowingly hired 200 illegal Polish aliens to demolish a building in Manhattan in 1980 to make way for his glittering Trump Tower. Members of Housewreckers Local 95, who also accuse their own president in the scheme, allege that Trump was able to avoid making payments that would now total $1 million (including interest) into the union's pension funds. % "You can bet there was a wise guy somewhere in the background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organized Crime: The Underworld Is Their Oyster | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

...Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski has said he believes the desire for freedom may be a genetic characteristic of the human race, and I believe you agree. Why, then, have some civilizations been slower to implement freedom than others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's FANG LIZHI: The Science Of Human Rights | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

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