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What should have been fully explained is that non-Communist foreign correspondents have encountered so many obstacles to reporting the news in Russia's satellite Balkan countries that their number has been reduced to a handful. Each remaining correspondent wonders whether his next visa will be renewed. A recent departure from their thinning ranks was the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart who, although his visa was in perfect order, was given 24 hours to get out of Hungary for a straightforward piece of reporting that displeased the Communist authorities there...
...recent months the Liberals, especially the Gaitanista faction, had seemed to be losing strength. After last week's massive, disciplined demonstration, Colombia's Conservatives began to reconsider their chances in next June's elections...
...some lines, buying had dropped off in spite of price cuts. Nash cut its prices $20 to $120; Willys, whose recent cut had brought no notable sales spurt, went on a four-day week. Car dealers complained that the spring buying wave had been a ripple instead of the hoped-for comber...
...Stalin Prizes went to a 41-year-old Russian newspaper woman named Vera Fedorovna Panova for her first novel, a story of a Red army hospital train in World War II. Published in the U.S., The Train proves to be exceptional in recent Soviet fiction for sticking to its own tracks, with no side excursions into politics and only the rarest toots of the propaganda whistle...
These two instances are only the most recent examples of biased "reporting." Almost the whole press coverage of the un-American Activities Committee was slanted from the first whack of Parnell Thomas' gavel. The burst of front-page copy which followed Lawrence Duggan's death and the one-sided stories of the slander thrown at Dr. Edward U. Condon by the Thomas Committee have been mere items in the "crusade...