Word: pressee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whenever Bernard Cabanes, 41, editor in chief of Agence France Presse, would run into Bernard Cabanes, 51, editor of the lowbrow morning daily, Le Parisien Libéré (circ. 800,000), the two identically named journalists would trade mistaken-identity stories-like the time in 1963 when police in...
Another stay-put journalist, Stewart Dalby of the London Financial Times, reported: "I went to speak to some Communist troops heavily armed with grenades and AK47 rifles sitting in a truck outside the old Defense Ministry. They smiled and waved. All of them were very young." A correspondent from Agence...
In the confusion, maybe it was impossible to tell. But there was little more news about those who stayed behind, Was the NLF restoring order, ordering reprisals, putting its state amnesty program into effect? Maybe the North Vietnamese didn't want correspondents filing dispatches from the front--Le Monde wasn...
Even South Viet Nam's hardy and often volatile non-Communist political opposition has lately been relatively quiescent. Several months ago, anti-Thieu activity, led by anti-Communist Roman Catholics, reached such a peak that many were reminded of the devastatingly effective anti-government Buddhist protests of the 1960s...
Bizarre Luxury. Even foreigners in the C.A.R. live a somewhat precarious existence. An Agence France-Presse reporter, who filed a critical story from Bangui about Bokassa's rule, was arrested, stripped and dumped in a dungeon before being expelled; dozens of others have been ordered out of the country...