Word: timesman
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Beer at $1.40. On the first day, New York Timesman Eric Pace managed to get the U.S. embassy on the phone to dictate a pool dispatch. In the middle of a second dispatch, the line went dead. Soon the hotel-and indeed the whole city-was without electricity or running water. The hotel bar shut down, but an enterprising employee did a brisk business in Jordanian beer at $1.40 a bottle...
...release of the hijack hostages. Adams drew on his experiences as a prisoner of war in Germany to organize the correspondents. Though they included some major byliners from the U.S., Britain, France, Italy and other countries, they set about cleaning toilets and performing other menial chores. Los Angeles Timesman William Tuohy swept the lobby floor; NBC's Douglas Kiker staggered under the weight of a trash can; another newsman risked drawing fire to mend the water tank...
Correspondents have become involved in other ways since the recent massacres of Vietnamese civilians. After viewing scores of bodies floating down the Mekong River, New York Timesman Henry Kamm and London Timesman Fred Emery each called on a high official in the Cambodian government. They implored him to call off the slaughtering and pointed out that, apart from anything else, the killings were not helping his government's cause. The official promised an investigation...
...betrayed. Hence the Justice Department has customarily negotiated the scope of subpoenas for the news media. Mitchell insisted that there had been no change of policy under his direction but conceded that "unfortunately" some subpoenas had been issued without prior negotiation. Among the most recent: one ordering New York Timesman Earl Caldwell to produce notes and tape-recorded interviews on the Black Panther Party acquired since January last year...
...York Timesman Cabell Phillips, author of The Truman Presidency and a Washington reporter for 25 years, says that the "framework" of what he calls his "journalistic reprise" is "necessarily political." But the charm of the only-yesterday memoir is its look of pure miscellany. For all his muttering about framework, Phillips' shambles, happily, is no exception...