Word: pressee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their quarry was Kurt Schilling, 57, a Swiss business consultant working, he insisted, in "the interests of Swiss defense." At first the Austrians laughed: they thought he was an East bloc spy. Then Swiss officials discovered that Schilling had indeed been dispatched on an information-gathering mission, albeit unauthorized, by...
The stories of Brezhnev's demise gathered momentum when Agence France Presse reported from Brussels that Moscow's regular evening news program had been canceled for important state reasons; the press agency speculated that an announcement about Brezhnev's health was imminent. In fact, the Moscow news...
Investigative reporting in France is sharply restricted. Television stations are state-owned, and the national news service, Agence France Presse, is headed by a political ally of Giscard. Newspapers are vulnerable too, some because they have received government-guaranteed loans, others because they need the advertising directed their way by...
Long the fat matron of Montreal's once powerful English-speaking minority, the Star consistently outsold its morning rival, the Gazette (circ. 168,000), which was founded in 1778 and is owned by the Southam chain (the Ottawa Citizen and 13 other Canadian dailies). But over the past two...
The old vision abroad of an incorrigibly profligate America led to skepticism about Carter's energy speeches. "I cannot believe Carter," said Thomas Jensen, an Oslo plumber, "until I see his words transformed into results, and that depends on Americans, who waste energy so badly." Vienna's daily...