Word: starobin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Worker has been at a disadvantage. Unlike other Communist papers, such as France's L'Humanité and London's Worker, the Manhattan Worker had no staff correspondent filing regularly from the Reds' Far Eastern camps. Last week the Worker finally caught up; Correspondent Joseph Starobin, a Worker staffer for ten years and a Communist Party member for as long as anyone could recall, became the first U.S. newsman to get behind enemy lines. Joe Starobin, a U.S. citizen who went abroad more than two years ago and recently attended Red China's Peiping peace...
Once there, Starobin faithfully followed the party line on Indo-China but he did clear up one point. For more than two years no Westerner has seen Ho Chi Minh, leader of the Communist forces. Wrote Starobin: "The highest points of my voyage . . . were two evenings in the company of 63-year-old Ho Chi Minh." As Starobin described him, Ho Chi Minh is "a rather tall man . . . His back is now slightly hunched, greying hair recedes from a broad forehead, and piercing eyes look out over high cheekbones. He wears the oriental wisp of a beard, and his hearty...
...Stephen Myron Schwebel '50, Government; Gilbert Randall Seely '50, Chemistry; Stanley Herbert Shapiro '50, Social Relations; John Gerald Simon '50, Hist. & Lit.; Henry Joseph Smith '49, Astronomy; H. Eric Solomon '50, English; Carlos Claudio Spies '50, Music; Jonathan Martin Spivak '50, Government; Jerome Burton Spunt '50, Economics; Oscar Ephram Starobin '50, Biology; Harold Peter Stera '50, Hist...