Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the Paris bureau they received an unexpected contribution -an intimate, first-hand report on Chinese Communism from the staff librarian, Jean Pasqualini. Born in Peking of a Chinese mother and a Corsican father, Pasqualini served as an interpreter for the U.S. Marines after World War II, later was arrested by Mao's police, charged with spying and sentenced to twelve years in a labor camp. After serving seven years, Pasqualini was released...
Republican Congressman William Steiger returned from a tour of universities to report last week: "Vast numbers of bright, dedicated, sincere students are just as deeply disturbed as the so-called revolutionaries. The difference is that they have not yet rejected completely the view that they should not resort to violence...
...group was a task force appointed by the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. The commission itself was established by Lyndon Johnson a year ago, shortly after the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. The task force, which is sued its meticulously researched 350,000-word report on the anniversary of Kennedy's death, examined the historical precedents and foreign parallels of contemporary violence in America...
...Responses. The report compared home-bred civil disturbances and those in 84 other countries, measured on a complex scale. On that scale, despite the American penchant for violence, the U.S. ranked below the midpoint, at 46th, in the severity of collective wrath...
Political Scientist Ted Robert Gurr of Princeton, one of the editors of last week's report, said that if he had to begin the study again, he would devote more attention to individual violence...