Word: press
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...innocuous-looking press cards, which bear the holder's name, nationality, news organization and passport number in both English and Arabic, may turn out to be the cause of even more trouble. Last week Israel's Police Minister announced that he was launching an investigation to determine whether the A.J.A. had the right to issue the credentials. At the same time, outraged members of Israel's Parliament demanded that the government withdraw the Israeli credentials of journalists who hold the Arab cards, or even expel them from the country...
...Newsmen working in Italy, England or Germany would not contemplate taking press cards from the Red Brigades, I.R.A. or the Baader-Meinhof," says Yoram Ettinger, director of Israel's Government Press Office...
...like any press credential, the cards also pose a potential threat to press freedom: if their use becomes required, they could become de facto licenses that would give the A.J.A. the power to determine who can report in the occupied territories. Until some foreign reporters complained recently, Israeli citizens working for overseas news organizations were not eligible for the A.J.A. card. Local Israeli reporters are still barred...
...editor in chief of the Soviet foreign affairs weekly New Times, Ignatenko, 48, has since taken many steps into that new era. Three months ago, for example, the magazine (circ. 600,000) published the first Soviet press interview ever with Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa...
...promoting Gingrich's book Window of Opportunity. Part book (co-authored by a science fiction writer), part polemic, part tax shelter, Window lost money for its investors, but earned the Gingriches $12,018 in royalties and Mrs. Gingrich $11,500 in salary. When asked about this at a press conference last week, Marianne stomped out in tears...