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Investigative reporter. The words conjure up grizzled newsmen in dark trench coats meeting at midnight with "Deep Throat" sources. As professional journalists know, such glamorous notions are seldom accurate. Yet for TIME correspondents Jonathan Beaty and Sam Gwynne, who together unearthed and wrote last month's story on the scandal engulfing the Bank of Credit & Commerce International and this week's special report on the B.C.C.I. as well, the reality of chasing the yarn was as thrilling as the best detective fiction...
...interaction of Bush's adamancy and Saddam's defiance was, to an unprecedented degree and in unprecedented ways, seen and heard round the world. Even when deprived of video transmission, television newsmen in Baghdad could still hold microphones to their hotel windows. Audiences on every continent studied maps of the city while they listened to the boom, boom, boom of what Bush was saying to Saddam...
...says, learned at least one lesson in Vietnam: "Don't ever again let the press have free rein to cover a war pretty much as it sees fit." International editor Karsten Prager, who as a correspondent spent much time in the field during three years in Vietnam, agrees. "Newsmen had direct access," he says, "unlike what is happening now. You walked with a platoon or a company and covered things on the ground, not from headquarters." That kind of reporting gives the most accurate perspective on the drama and despair of war. It is surpassed only by the much more...
...night fell on Friday, crowds of angry blacks milled about in Brooklyn, disrupting traffic and throwing rocks and bottles. Fires, possibly ignited by arsonists, erupted in the Bedford-Stuyvesant and East New York sections of the borough, and a few whites, including several newsmen, were attacked but suffered only minor injuries...
...Newsmen working in Italy, England or Germany would not contemplate taking press cards from the Red Brigades, I.R.A. or the Baader-Meinhof," says Yoram Ettinger, director of Israel's Government Press Office...