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REPORTER AT LARGE about a month-long visit last fall to China by the writer & his Chinese-born wife, Jayjia. They explored the remarkable Long River (its …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the Philippines. Writer tells about a week spent on the island of Negros, the country's fourth largest. Negros has become a …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the Philippines. Writer visited there 18 months after the toppling of the dictatoraship of Ferdinand Marcos in Feb., 1986 & the …
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A REPORTER AT LARGE about sanctions, South Africa & the Nonaligned Movement's eighth summit, held in September in Harare, capital of South Africa's…
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REPORTER AT LARGE about recent events in the Philippines. In Feb. there was a fraudulent presidential election, which Pres. Marcos claimed to have won. …
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A REPORTER AT LARGE about the Philippines. Last February there was an extraordinary rebellion in the wake of fraudulent election. It was primarily …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Cambodia, present & recent past. 20 years ago Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the politically agile but unpredictable Cambodian chief of …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Vietnam. Writer spoke to Professor Tran Phuong, the Deputy Prime Minister for Planning and one of the few middle-generation trained…
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Yugoslavia, a country which seems determined to work out its own fate methodically according to its own schedule and devices. This …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Yugoslavia. The country has passed through numerous buffetings while fiercely maintaining its unique status as an independent …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Hawaii. Among almost a million inhabitants those who can be classified as part-Hawaiian are 165,000; slightly less than 1% of the …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Hawaii. 23 years after it achieved statehood, the political logic and the economic and social benefits of becoming the 50th state …
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PROFILE of David Dunlop Newsom, highest-ranking Foreign Service officer in the State Dept. He is 62, and has spent about half of his career abroad and half…
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PROFILE of David Newsom, highest-ranking Foreign Service officer in the State Department. Tells about the complicated effort to free the Americans held …
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PROFILE of David Dunlop Newsom, U.S. Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs. On Nov. 4, 1979, the U.S. Embassy, in Teheran, Iran, was invaded by …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a summit meeting a few weeks ago in Havana, of the Nonaligned Nations. The meeting, with 94 participants, lasted a fortnight. Fidel…
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REPORTER AT LARGE about refugees from the Indo-Chinese nations who are leaving at a rate of a thousand or more a month. Thailand has had to bear the brunt …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Japan's social, political and economic development from the mid-1950's to present. It began to rebuild its industry in the …
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PROFILE of Saigon, S. Vietnam. Tells about the French colonization of Vietnam, & of the Japanese invasion & control of Indo-China during W.W. II.
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Bangladesh & the India-Pakistan war. Tells about the preparations for war on both sides, & how Mrs. Gandhi tried to avert it, …
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REPORTER AT LARGE. After 2 1/2 years of fruitless talks in Paris, a cease-fire or at least a lowering of the level of hostilities-has finally become a …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the Paris peace talks and the present situation in Vietnam. An uncertain element at present is the manner in which the South …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Indonesia under the leadership of Pres. Suharto, which began in 1966. The mass of nominal Muslims, which make up 90% of the …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the regime of Pres. Sukarno from 1950 to 1965. Following the defeat of a Comunist revolt in East Java, in Sept, 1948, in which a …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Indonesia, a former Dutch colonial empire of more than a hundred million people living on an enormous archipelago of three thousand…
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REPORTER AT LARGE about fighting Vietcong and Vietnamese forces in the Demilitarized Zone -Operations Hastings and Prarie, tells about a four-man "recon" …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Red China from sources gathered in Hong Kong by professional China watchers who, through interviews, through collecting, reading …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the U. S. Peace Corps Volunteers, & an interview with two 22-year-old girls stationed in Panay in a miserable fishing village …
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PROFILE of Arthur J. Goldberg, Sec. of Labor, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrant. Presiding over the smallest department in the Cabinet which, according …
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PROFILE of John Moors Cabot, Ambassador to Brazil. In '44, Mr. Cabot was appointed as a Counsellor of Embassy at Buenos Aires, this was during the big …
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PROFILE of Robert W. Dowling tells about his development of Parkchester. He bought a Catholic protectory whose outmoded & dangerously inflammable buildings…
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PROFILE of Avery Brundage, president of the International Olympic Committee, tells about the Berlin Olympic of 1936. In '33, when the Nazis came to …
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PROFILE of Bruce Smith, expert on the science of policework throughout the world, & director of the Inst. of Publ. Admin stration. He has made surveys of a…
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PROFILE of Sirdar Jagjit Singh, the president of the India League of America, a privately supported, nonprofit organization that seeks to interpret India …
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REPORTER AT LARGE, about the freeing of prisoners interned at the old Spanish penitentiary of Bilibid, Manila. Our intelligence knew nothing about the fact…