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Born in North Carolina, White wanted to be a journalist as long as he can remember. Since he started as a reporter with the Washington Post in 1967, he has practiced his craft with a mission in mind: "I've spent most of my career writing about what it means to be black in America, trying to translate that for a wider audience." Joining TIME in 1972, he worked first as a writer in New York, then as a correspondent in Atlanta and Boston. In 1976 White won a Nieman Fellowship and went to Harvard to study ethnic politics...
...Congressional backers of the doctrine are preparing to try again, and one of them, Democratic Senator Ernest F. Hollings of South Carolina, denounced last week's FCC action as "wrongheaded, misguided and illogical." They face an uphill battle, though, against both the Administration and the press. As the Washington Post pointedly editorialized, "The FCC has done the right thing, and Congress should take no action to overturn its decision...
...government launched an all-out campaign against gouging last month, giving inspectors the power to impose fines, shut down shops and force owners to post prices. The names of closed shops are published in daily newspapers, along with the correct costs of basic items. On a morning radio show called Hello, Have a Good Day, listeners have repeatedly complained about high prices and profiteering. Some gripe that while government employees can barely make ends meet, a few merchants are getting richer and richer. Nonetheless, the social and political status of the bazaari, the powerful businessmen who traditionally have...
...next move may lie with the U.S. Congress. Last week, in an article in the Washington Post, Claiborne Pell, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, denounced Pakistan for "breaking its commitments and flouting U.S. laws." Representative Dante Fascell of Florida, who heads the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has asked the Administration to suspend military portions of the aid package until Pakistan shows that it is not involved in illicit attempts to obtain nuclear materials. And an appropriations subcommittee has already voted to suspend a small portion of the aid. Many analysts believe congressional action will end there, since awareness...
...notoriously humorless Sartzetakis, 58, has denied any connection with the abortive action by the public prosecutor's office. Before taking up his post in 1985, Sartzetakis was a respected prosecutor and judge who was imprisoned and tortured under the dictatorial Greek junta of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Part of his career was dramatized in the 1968 movie Z. But the President has often been lampooned for his intolerance of press criticism and his regal life-style. After the bust, the government of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou issued a statement assuring citizens that it respected freedom of expression...