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...Nowhere in the world can you find such a quantity and variety of ancient art," says Ozgen Acar, a Turkish investigative journalist. In the "open-air museum" that is his homeland, he says, farmers go into hock to buy metal detectors, while Sotheby's and Christie's catalogs "sell better than Korans." One Turkish case, tied up in litigation since 1986, involves the country's claim on the Lydian Hoard, a famous collection of 250 gold and silver wares. New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which bought the pieces, does not acknowledge that they came from Turkey...
...Tuesday working in his office in Rome, where he was bureau chief. Terry, as his friends called him, went to Italy a year ago after five years editing in our Nation section and nine months as deputy managing editor of the New York Daily News. Terry was a natural journalist, always curious and professional, devoted to his family, a gracious and cheerful presence in the Time & Life Building in New York City and on the Via Sardegna in Rome. We will miss him immensely...
...that Gates planned illegal arms shipments to Iraq with him in the mid-1980s. Gates convincingly disputed the charges during the Senate hearings. The Senate Intelligence Committee concluded after lengthy investigation that no "credible evidence" supported the allegations. But Ben-Menashe's credibility gauge took a jump when investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, in his new book, The Samson Option, named Ben-Menashe as a source for his charge that Nicholas Davies, foreign editor of London's Daily Mirror, was an Israeli agent. Davies denied a meeting described by Ben-Menashe, but was fired last week after the Israeli produced...
FREE SPEECH IS ONE THING, but it does not include the right to issue death threats. Nor does it include the right to take somebody else's belongings. Jeffries's actions constitute federal offenses, as well as state felonies, because they denied the civil rights of a journalist and because they were committed on City University property...
Galina Starovoitova, a top aide to Boris Yeltsin, has reason to fear a second coup. While visiting Edinburgh last month, she had a chance encounter with Alexander Nevzorov the ultra-nationalist Soviet TV journalist. The Yeltsin staffer says that Nevzorov, spewed his contempt for the bumblers who conducted their inept coup in an alcoholic haze. "Next time," Starovoitova says he told her, "we won't fail. We'll arrest the opposition before announcing that we have taken over. You will be one of those we will arrest...