OPC Bulletin 01-01, 2001

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by  Overseas Press Club of America

Zakaria to Speak at
“Best Ever” Foundation
Lunch January 22
by Bill Holstein two new scholarships during the lunch.
This year’s annual OPC Foundation One is named for Emanuel Freedman, a
scholarship luncheon on Monday, long-time foreign editor of The New
January 22 shapes up to be the best ever, York Times who directed the paper’s
if we do say so ourselves. The number coverage of many major events during
of applications from students aspiring to the 1950s and 60s. He eventually
become correspondents is up and the became an assistant managing editor,
number of scholarships being granted is and guided the careers of an entire gen­
growing. Very distinguished journalists eration of correspondents for the Times.
also will be making appearances. Executive Editor Joe Lely veld, one of
Speaking will be Fareed Zakaria, the those correspondents, will take the podi­
new editor of Newsweek International. um to help launch the scholarship in
Zakaria had been managing editor of Freedman’s name.
Fareed Zakaria
Foreign Affairs, the prestigious journal The Foundation will also commence
of international relations, and a colum­ a scholarship in the name of Roy has launched a scholarship in the name
nist for Newsweek. But he will be Rowan, a correspondent, writer, and of someone still very much alive and
assuming his duties at Newsweek in author for more than 50 years and the kicking, Roy will be able to present the
January. Hailed by his colleagues as a immediate past president of the OPC. first Rowan scholarship check himself.
brilliant young writer and editor, Zakaria Since it’s the first time the Foundation (Continued on Page 4)
will be speaking just days after the inau­
guration of President George W. Bush,
Roger Cohen on Germany
making his remarks particularly timely.
Originally from India, Zakaria has
shared an OPC award with a Newsweek US-German relationship is
By Sonya K. Fry
reporting team. Roger Cohen, The New affected.
The Foundation will be unveiling
York Times Berlin Bureau Before serving in Ber­
Chief and OPC Board lin, Cohen was a corre­
Inside.. . member, will address the spondent in the Times Paris
Club on Wednesday, bureau, but it is perhaps his
Press Freedom............ January 31. Roger has been stint as Zagreb bureau chief
International Awards. covering Germany, Austria that has defined his writing.
and Eastern Europe since He wrote extensively and
Vietnam Notebook...... 1998. He should have some eloquently on the Bosnian
Holiday Party............. interesting insights on war for which he won the
Europe’s new look at 1995 OPC Eric and Amy
New OPC Award........ immigration, the rise of Burger Award on human
People......................... nationalism in the shadow Roger Cohen rights for his investigation
of the European Union or of torture and murder at a
New Members........... perhaps because of it, the move of the Serb-run Bosnian camp. In addition, he
In Memory.................. German capital from Bonn to Berlin, wrote a book “Hearts Grown Bmtal:
the changing political landscape from a Sagas of Sarajevo” (Random House,
Italian Club................ post-war mentality to a modem unified 1998) which is a testament to the loss of
New Books................. Germany. Roger has his finger on the a multi-ethnic European state and the
pulse of the new Germany and how the (Continued on Page 4)
“Big Brother” and the Internet:
International
Awards Deadline
Primitivism in a Digital Age
The deadline for the 2000 SAIS-
by Kevin McDermott and Overseas Press Club of America went Novartis Awards Competition for
Norman A. Schorr unheard until the ouster of Slobodan excellence in International Journalism
Freedom of the Press Committee Milosovic in the elections of last has been set for January 31,2001. The
A new internal forecast by the U.S. October. competition is open “to journalists
Central Intelligence Agency predicts The OPC has been similarly vocal on who work professionally in print,
that among the significant changes the behalf of Duran Angiki, a prominent broadcast, or online media.” The top
world will see in the next 15 years will journalist in the Solomon Islands work­ 10 finalists will receive awards “for
be new technologies rendering govern­ ing for the online news service Pasifik work that has brought a topic of inter­
ments almost powerless to control the Nius. His stories on ethnic conflict in the national importance to public attention
flow of information. That would seem to Solomons and the role played by armed during the calendar year.” The top
bode well for press freedom, but several opposition groups have angered the prize winner receives $15,000.
recent stories suggest that even in the Malaita Eagle Force (MEF), the paramil­ The prize is sponsored jointly by
digital age journalists will never be itary organization that led a coup d’etat the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced
entirely free from the retribution of dis­ in June. Angiki and his family have International Studies (SAIS) of Johns
pleased authority. received threats from the MEF and are Hopkins University and Novartis, a
For example, in Yugoslavia Radio now in hiding. Swiss-based corporation that is a
B92 countered the government’s seizure The grimmest case is that of Georgiy leader in health care products and
of its broadcast facilities by digitizing its Gongadze, a correspondent for www. pharmaceuticals.
programming and delivering it around pravda.com.ua. Gongadze made his rep­ For more information contact: The
the globe via the Internet. That didn’t utation with strongly critical reporting on SAIS-Novartis Awards, the Paul H.
prevent the confiscation of its music prominent Ukrainian business leaders Nitze School of Advanced Inter­
library, documents and bank accounts. and senior government ministers— national Studies, 1619 Massachusetts
Soon after, Yugoslav journalist Miroslav including President Leonid Kuchma. In Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC
Flipovic was imprisoned for reporting mid-September Gongadze disappeared. 20036. Tel. [phone]. Fax:
atrocities committed by Serbian soldiers Shortly afterward a decapitated body [phone]. e-mail Intl.prize@
in Kosovo. Drawing upon what he main­ believed to be his was discovered outside jhu.edu
tained were public documents, of Kiev. Kuchma’s government strongly
Flipovic’s reporting was carried to the denies involvement in Gongadze’s disap­
world on the website of the Institute for pearance, but in November a secretly respect to information technologies, but
War & Peace Reporting in London. Last recorded cassette was made public impli­ in many countries our colleagues still
summer his work earned him a seven- cating government ministers in a plot to work under the eyes of governments
year prison sentence. Calls for his assassinate the reporter. determined to retain the power of primi­
release by organizations including the The genie is out of the bottle with tive despots.
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ACTIVE BOARD Roy Rowan
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Newsweek International Management
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The New School
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Foreign Editor Jim Laurie
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THIRD VICE PRES. The Wall Street Journal VP, Network News EDITOR
International Executive Chris Tofalli
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OPC Bulletin • January 2001 • Page 2
Vietnam R eporter’s Notebook:
W ith President C linton in Saigon
by Jim Laurie Hotel. As he looked out, he stared at the chaotic evacuation of Americans and
(OPC board member Jim Laurie was a spires of the Saigon Cathedral, gazed to Vietnamese which ended in humiliating
reporter in Vietnam from 1970 to 1973 his right to the site of the old U.S. fashion America’s 15-year-long wartime
and again in 1975. He has visited the Embassy, now torn down, and just in involvement with Vietnam.
country frequently since then and was between, he could see the tiny rooftop The unplanned airlift left tens of thou­
therefor President Clinton’s recent visit.) immortalized in Hugh Van Es’ photo of sands of Vietnamese allies behind, many
Saigon. November 20, 2000. Ah, the Vietnamese scrambling up a ladder to the of whom ended up rotting in communist
passage of time. The memories rekindled. safety of a U.S. helicopter. re-education camps or risking escape by
The ironies of this visit. As I rode the press bus with the gaggle flimsy boats into the South China Sea.
“Welcome U.S. President William of reporters behind the Presidential motor­ I was one of about a dozen reporters
Jefferson Clinton and Spouse” proclaimed cade, memories of other buses 25 years and photographers who had worked and
the banners on selected motorcade routes ago flooded back. lived in Vietnam before 1975 who were
in Hanoi. Now smiling, waving children lined back once again with President Clinton.
There was the American President, Saigon streets. Then, on April 29, 1975, Most of the 200 or so journalists
who like so many of his generation panicked faces raced along as a caravan of assigned to the White House, like most
opposed the war and avoided the draft, evacuation buses driven by U.S. marines Vietnamese today, have little or no
reviewing North Vietnamese troops; shuttled people to Ton Son Nhut before memory of the war.
“enemy” troops in Hanoi. North Vietnamese rockets and mortars But the memories of some old timers
There was the President gazing out shut down the airfield. are truly amazing.
from the rooftop bar at Saigon’s Caravelle That was just the beginning of a (Continued on Page 4)
OPC HOLIDAY PARTY SCRAPBOOK
HOLIDAY REVELERS (left to right): OPC mascot in a holiday mood; new members in 2000 (with flowers in
lapels) enjoy the holiday party; Herb Lash (Reuters) and Peter Lloyd (Public Affairs, Canadian Consulate); A1
Kaff, Brooke Janis and Lee Townsend, OPC Bulletin; David Alpem (Newsweek), Pete Engardio (Business Week)
and Roberto Soto (Associated Press TV).
OPC Bulletin • January 2001 • Page 3
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK
New OPC Award to Honor
(Continued from Page 3)
“Jim, haven’t seen you since Pleiku
Brave Russian Journalists 1971!” shouted Pham Boi Hoan. Hoan, or
“PB” as he was known, is one of the true
Vietnam vets. Having completed his army
by Sonya K. Fry going Moscow Bureau service where he was trained as a combat
The OPC in cooper­ Chief for The Wash­ photographer, ‘PB” joined CBS News as
ation with CBS News ington Post, has been a cameraman in Saigon in April 1965.
and US News and World instrumental in han­ After his evacuation to the United States,
Report is organizing dling the details on the he became a CBS White House camera­
a new award in honor ground in Russia and man.
of Artyom Borovik, a Beth Knobel of CBS “Presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan,
Russian journalist, who* News in Moscow will Bush. I covered them all,” said. PB. “I
won an OPC Edward R. take in the entries for wanted one, any one of them, to visit
Murrow Award in 1991 judging. The Judging Vietnam. Now I’m finally going back
for his Russian reports Committee will be with an American President.”
for 60 Minutes. Mr. two-pronged, one in His colleague and friend, CBS
Borovik died in a heli­ Moscow and the wartime cameraman Pham Gia Cuong,
copter crash in March of other here in New also joined the White House party. They
1999 at the age of 39. Artyom Borovik York. They will con­ seemed more proud and happy about this
The Artyom Borovik Award will be sist of American journalists who speak event than anyone else I met. I thank
for outstanding reportage by a Russian Russian and have spent considerable Derek Williams, Bill Plante and Bruce
journalist who displays courage, time in Russia. Dunning for making sure I saw them
insight, balanced yet aggressive report­ The award will be presented for the again.
ing and independence of thought in first time at the annual OPC Awards Other colleagues had different takes
print or in the broadcast media. Dinner on April 26th at the Grand on the war.
OPC member David Hoffman, out­ Hyatt Hotel in New York City. David Hume Kennerly, UPI in the
early ’70s when I knew him, and later
President Ford’s White House official
photographer, was back again for
Zakaria to Speak January 22
Newsweek.
“Bet you’ve seen a lot of changes
here,” shouted Clinton at one photo
at Foundation Lunch
opportunity. Kennerly was in the “tight
pool” with the President. “I always
(Continued from Page 1) of Washington. The geographic range of enjoyed getting ‘tight’ in Vietnam,”
Altogether, the Foundation will grant 11 entries (from all over the country as well Kennerly allowed.
scholarships of $2,000 each. as some from abroad) suggests that the Seth Mydans of The New York Times
A record 154 students from around nearly decade-old scholarship program is had “served” in Vietnam with “RMK-
the country applied for the scholarships, winning wide recognition. BRJ”, a giant American construction
up from about 100 in past years. The judges who selected the 11 win­ company conglomerate. “It was a way of
Columbia dominated the competition, ners have many decades of journalistic avoiding the draft,” said Mydans.
winning six out of 11, but other winners experience under their belts. The judging ‘Well the Americans in Vietnam did
come from Baruch, Yale, New York was chaired by Bernard Gavzer, a long­ contribute something besides misery,
University, Berkeley and the University time writer for Parade magazine. Other death and destruction,” one Vietnamese
judges were Catherine Hemlepp, Fran friend told me. “Our roads and airstrips
Carpentier, Robert Solby, Felice Levin, would be a lot worse than they are if
ROGER COHEN Jeremy Main, David Schlesinger, John ‘RMK-BRJ’ hadn’t been here.”
(Continued from Page 1) Corporon, Josephine Lyons, and Ed President Clinton, of course, did not
resultant violence. Jackson. Because of the number of dwell on American “contributions” to
Cohen has also been a foreign corre­ entries, the judges had to spend an entire Vietnam’s past. He was focused on the
spondent for The Wall Street Journal day sequestered in the conference room future: building psychological bridges not
opening bureaus in Rio de Janeiro and at Club Quarters. military airstrips.
Rome and for Reuters reporting from The January 22 luncheon starts at “Chuc cac ban hanh phuc va thanh
London, Brussels and Rome. noon at the Yale Club on Vanderbilt near cong,” said the American President. “I
A reception preceding the talk will Grand Central Station and will conclude wish you all happiness and success.”
begin at 6:00pm with the subsequent by 2 p.m. The price of the luncheon for “Remarkable,” noted one old reporter.
lecture beginning at 6:45pm, followed OPC members is $45. Table prices will “I don’t recall that either Johnson or
by a question and answer period. Please also be available. Reservations are essen­ Nixon (the last U.S. Presidents to visit
make a reservation by calling the OPC tial. Call the club at 212-626-9220. Vietnam) even tried to speak Vietnamese
at [phone]. when they came here.”
OPC Bulletin • January 2001 • Page 4
elsewhere. In 1970, he moved to
England, where he lived for 12 years.
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RIE/ Dartmouth College Film Society, and he
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CU ATCHISON, May and tried Nov. 23 in a closed court reviews movies in addition to running
ON Kansas: OPC hearing. his news service.
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GO founding member ♦
Fay Gillis Wells, 92 (“but call me 26”), William Powell is the new Asia edi­ HONG KONG: In a Dec. 27 letter
spends almost as much time on the road tor for Fortune, based in the magazine’s faxed to the OPC, Robert Keatley, editor
as she does in her Alexandria, Virginia, newly-established Beijing bureau. of the South China Morning Post, said he
home. In December, Wells traveled to Before joining Fortune last July tried but failed to persuade Willy Wo-lap
Atchison and told sixth grade students (November 2000 Bulletin), Powell was Lam, the paper’s chief China watcher, to
about her own life as a pilot, war corre­ Newsweek’s bureau chief in Tokyo, remain on the daily’s staff. Lam’s resig­
spondent and White House reporter. She 1989-1994; Berlin, 1994-1995; and nation led to speculation that pro-Beijing
described things strange to today’s Moscow, 1996-2000. He won the OPC groups objected to his coverage of China
youngsters: propeller planes, Model T award for best economic reporting from (December Bulletin). In his fax to John
Fords, nickelodeons, cross-country train abroad in 1990 and 1995. Langone and Norman Schorr of the
rides, dancing the Charleston in college, OPC Freedom of the Press Committee,
reporting from the Italian-Ethiopian War BERLIN: Julius Viel, 82, a retired Keatley, a longtime Wall Street Journal
in the 1930s and the idiosyncrasies of for­ German journalist, was being tried in reporter and editor, wrote: “I understand
mer presidents she covered in the White December on charges of gunning down your concerns about Willy Wo-lap Lam.
House. Sixth grader Josh Zufelt enjoyed seven Jewish concentration camp But with so many adverse comments
Wells’ report on how she parachuted inmates during World War II when he about the matter, they are based on some
from an experimental Curtiss Fledgling was an officer in a Nazi Schutzstaffel misunderstandings....We decided to
plane in 1929 when the craft started to (SS) military unit. expand our coverage of China and the
breakup and she was thrown out, para­ size of our China reporting team, and to
chuting to safety. “When she fell out of GULF BREEZE, Florida: Fred give direction of that team to someone
that disintegrating plane, it taught me that Waters a longtime AP photographer else. Willy Lam has exercised those
women can do anything,” Zufelt told who covered the Korean War, now is duties only partially and somewhat nomi­
Atchison Globe reporter Trent Nelson. retired in Florida and “doing nothing.” nally, and we felt his special talents did
Wells came to this Missouri River town, Popular with his press colleagues and not fit the needs of this expanded assign­
birthplace of her friend Amelia Earhart, competitors, they called him Mizu, ment. However, I spent considerable time
to help plan this summer’s tribute to avia­ Japanese word for water. The Bulletin and effort trying to persuade Willy to
tion and aerospace pioneers at the asked Mizu if he is related to Craig remain an associate editor, a weekly
International Forest of Friendship. Waters, spokesman for the Florida columnist and a contributor to the SCMP,
Supreme Court who became a national but he declined. In fact, he told me he had
BEIJING: A Chinese court in TV figure during the Presidential vote decided to leave the paper in the near
December sentenced Teng Chunyan, recount. “We’re from the same part of future in any case, and had been negotiat­
37, a member of the Falun Gong spiritu­ the country, and there may be a distant ing with other potential employers for
al movement who has permanent resi­ relationship, but none that I know of,” some time. If you have been following
dency in the United States, to three years Mizu said. our coverage of China in recent weeks, I
in jail on charges she gave sensitive do not believe you will find anything to
information to foreign correspondents. HANOVER, New Hampshire: indicate that so-called ‘pro-Beijing
From Beijing, Elisabeth Rosenthal of Stuart Griffin, 83, once a widely pub­ groups and mainland China authorities,’
The New York Times reported: “Her lished freelancer in Japan, continues to to use your phrase, are influencing this
indictment accused her of providing for­ operate a news service that goes to 17 newspaper. Nor will you.”
eign journalists with photographs of British trade papers. The Bulletin’s ♦
Falun Gong practitioners detained in a “People” columnist had not heard from Chris Yeung, associate and political
psychiatric hospital, according to the Griffin since 1970 until he wrote in editor of the daily South China Morning
Hong Kong-based Information Center November: “A wind, a welcome one I Post, writes: “Did the Apple Daily, one
for Human Rights and Democracy. She trust, from the scented, golden memories of market tabloid
also gave foreign reporters advance Japanese past, when we were young.” A leaders, step over
notice of demonstrations by the group.” World War II correspondent in the the line when it paid
Teng, a Chinese citizen who immigrated Pacific for the American Red Cross, a labourer to pose in
to the United States about eight years Griffin arrived in Japan with the U.S. 1st bed with a prosti­
ago, was a resident of New York City. Cavalry Division a few days after tute, thus illustrating
She taught acupuncture at the New York Japan’s 1945 surrender. During 25 years the infidelity which
College and Holistic Health Center on in Tokyo, he worked for NBC News, drove his wife to
Long Island and had a private practice. started his news service and freelanced push her two sons
Married to a U.S. citizen, she returned to to newspapers in England, Canada, (Continued on
China early last year, was arrested in South Africa, Hong Kong, Manila and Page 6) Chris Yeung
OPC Bulletin • January 2001 • Page 5
PEOPLE Monakhov, 26, was hospitalized in
!
(Continued from Page 5) Jerusalem with injuries to her bladder,
out of their high-rise apartment window colon and bowel plus a fractured pelvis
and to jump herself?” Yeung was com­ fH lip and a severed leg nerve.
menting on the Hong Kong press in the ' >
chapter he wrote for the book “Losing LAS VEGAS: In December, Al
Control: Freedom of the Press in Asia” Kaff, the Bulletin’s “People” columnist,
[Australia National University Asia- i- spent four days in Las Vegas, never stop­
Pacific Press] (October 2000 Bulletin). ping at a gaming table nor dropping even
Yeung continues: “It seems ironic that 1 '-W * 4 Ü ■ 25 cents into a slot machine. He was
two years after the Handover [of Hong Phil Revzin Urban Lehner working for PR executive Bob Miko, a
Kong from Britain to China], which came tinuing to oversee the Far Eastern former Tokyo freelancer, in the press
with all the fears of Communist-style Economic Review, a weekly news maga­ room at Communications Solutions, an
controls, the biggest concern for press zine owned by Dow Jones. Urban Internet trade show in the Venetian Hotel.
freedom in Hong Kong is the media’s Lehner, former publisher and executive
own irresponsibility....As in other coun­ editor of the daily Asian Wall Street LONDON: Richard Cotton, execu­
tries of the region where the fear of cen­ Journal, returns to New York as the U.S. tive vice president and general counsel
sorship has been an issue, crime, sex and Journal’s vice presi­ for NBC, has been named chief executive
violence have provided the juicy, non­ dent for business of CNBC Europe. Cotton succeeds Mark
political fare to push up circulation fig­ development. He Hoffman, who held the post on an inter­
ures, but to avoid political controversy. replaces Bill Casey, im basis.
There is little concrete evidence that who becomes a Dow
Beijing has applied overt pressure to the Jones international LONGMONT, Colorado: For a
Hong Kong media since the Handover. vice president with planned book, Don Davis wants to hear
However, media analysts contend there is responsibility for The from correspondents, pilots, ground
a pervasive feeling of self-censorship Wall Street Journal crews and anyone else who recalls or par­
within an industry which was, for so Americas, America ticipated in the Christmas 1972 bombing
long, a bastion of western liberal press Economia and Dow Bill Casey of North Vietnam by U.S. B-52s. Davis,
values in a capitalist Chinese enclave.” Jones Latin American business maga­ who covered the Vietnam War for UPI,
♦ zines. Casey also will sit on the board of told the Bulletin: “The event rocked the
Vedomosti, a Russian newspaper of world during its execution, but quickly
which Dow Jones owns one-third. fell from front pages with the signing of
♦ the peace agreements and the return of
Scott Goodfellow is the new chief POWs. I want to tell the story of those
executive officer of dangerous days from a multitude of per­
CNBC Asia. Since spectives, including what happened in
last July, he had Hanoi, at Anderson Air Force Base, in
been acting presi­ Washington and at the bases in
dent of the TV news Thailand.” Contact Davis at 6350
network owned by Modena Lane, Longmont, Colorado,
Mike and Connie Winslow NBC and Dow 80503; telephone [phone]; E-mail
Mike Winslow, manager of the Jones. Earlier, Good- [email protected]. You might wind up
Foreign Correspondents’ Club (FCC) in fellow was director in his book.
Hong Kong, 1977-1980, and his wife, of television for Dow
Connie Winslow, now are managers Jones. Scott Goodfellow LOS ANGELES: OPC member
aboard Star Cruises ships. Last year, they John Burman has been promoted to
were sailing on Virgo out of Singapore. JERUSALEM: The Israeli Army international editor at The Hollywood
This year they will be in Germany for apologized in December to Ameri­ Reporter and executive director of the
outfitting of Star Cruises newest liner, can freelance photographer Yolanda entertainment trade paper’s annual Star
Libra. Mike started his kitchen career in Monakhov, who was shot near Bethle­ Power and Director Power surveys.
1966 during the Vietnam War with the hem in November, and said the soldier Previously he was international news edi­
U.S. Navy in Danang. He then worked involved and the officer who gave the tor for the paper, which he joined as an
for hotels in the United States, Hong order will be punished. While she was on intern in 1989 while at the University of
Kong and China. What’s the difference assignment for AP photographing a clash Southern California. Burman is the son of
between working in a press club and between Israelis and Palestinians, an the late Barry Burman, a CBS News
aboard a cruise ship? “At the FCC I Israeli soldier shot and wounded her director in the 1960s, and Margery
didn’t have to wear this,” he said, point­ (December Bulletin). She had taken cover Burman, secretary during the same peri­
ing to his dress white ship’s uniform. in a doorway, and a soldier mistook her od for the late CBS News correspondent
♦ for a Palestinian rioter, the army said. Charles Collingwood.
Phil Revziii, a Dow Jones vice presi­ “The shooting was wrong and contrary to
dent, becomes publisher of The Asian standing orders,” the army wrote in a LUSAKA, Zambia: Fred M’Mem-
Wall Street Journal in January while con­ statement given to Monakhov and AP. be, editor of The Post, Zambia’s only
OPC Bulletin • January 2001 • Page 6
independent daily, was cleared of espi­ NHK TV network that the Russian navy ciated Press was the only winner in inter­
onage charges in December. Charges dumped nuclear wastes at sea. In July national reporting, receiving an award for
were filed in March 1999 two weeks after 1999, a military court in Vladivostok its 1999 coverage of U.S. military
his newspaper published an article claim­ dropped tresason charges but convicted involvement in the slaying of civilians at
ing that this south central African him of abuse of office (August 1999 No Gun Ri village during the first months
nation’s military was ill-equipped to Bulletin). He appealed, but judges ruled of the Korean War. The AP report also
defend itself against neighboring Angola the treason charges had not been exam­ won an OPC Award and a Pulitzer Prize.
(May 1999 Bulletin). ined thoroughly, Michael Wines of The Sreenath Sreenivasan, a Columbia jour­
New York Times reported. nalism professor, commented: “The
MAPUTO, Mozambique: Carlos awards are just another indicator that a lot
Cardoso, 49, founder, owner and editor NEW YORK: In December, the U.S. of people are going online for their
of the daily Metical in this southeast Federal Trade Commission approved news.”
African republic, was shot and killed in the $112 billion merger of America After a year-long investigation by the
his car in November by an assailant who Online and Time Warner, a major step U.S. and South Korean governments, the
escaped. Cardoso was a sharp critic of the in creating the world’s biggest media Pentagon in December confirmed the AP
government, AP reported. and entertainment business with proper­ report. A U.S. defense official, who
ties that include magazines, movies, (Continued on Page 8)
Internet services, TV cable channels
and music studios.
In January, OPC member Norman Welcome to Our
Pearlstine started a new three-year con­
tract as editor-in-chief of Time Inc., over­ New Members
seeing the editorial content of the merged
company’s magazines. Pearlstine also is Joel Baglole
president of a foundation named for Reporter/Foreign Correspondent
author and journalist The Wall Street Journal
Atsuko Chiba, who Ottawa, Canada
Doris Macauley, right and her sister, Betty was one of Pearl­ active overseas
MARGATE, Florida: OPC member stine’s reporters
Peter E. Baker
Doris Macauley reported in November when he was the
Moscow Bureau Co-Chief
that “movie producer Martin Grobisen first managing edi­
The Washington Post
called me from Toronto to tell me they tor of The Asian
active overseas
are now going full time on the movie” Wall Street Journal
based on her book “What Time Is It in Hong Kong, Alice Chasan
in China?” A few weeks earlier she 1976-1980. Chiba Editor
talked about that book and her other died of breast cancer World Press Review
book, “Bread and Rice” at a Broward in 1986 at age 46. The Chiba foundation active resident
Community College library program in was established to carry out her request
Coconut Creek, Florida. In the late that proceeds of her estate be used to Stephen J. Glain
Middle East Correspondent
1930s, Macauley covered the Sino- support Asian journalists who study in
The Wall Street Journal
Japanese War for the New York Post. the United States.
Amman, Jordan
After returning to the United States, she Chiba wrote a book in Japanese about
active overseas
and her husband were sailing back to her breast cancer. At that time, Mike
China in 1941. Their ship reached Tharp, now U.S. News & World Susan B. Glasser
the Philippines three hours before Report’s Los Angeles correspondent, was Moscow Bureau Co-Chief
Japanese warplanes bombed Manila. based in Tokyo, and he interviewed The Washington Post
During Japan’s occupation of the Chiba for the April 1981 issue of No. 1 active overseas
Philippines, she hid out in the moun­ Shimbun, journal of the Foreign
tains with Filipino guerrillas, living on Correspondents’ Club of Japan. He wrote Peter Lloyd
bread and rice. that three chapters of Chiba’s book dealt Consul
Canadian Consulate General
“with often intimate details of her person­
associate resident
MOSCOW: al life...autobiographical details that
Russia’s high court many readers here might find sensation­
Sheryl A. Mendez
in November ordered al.” Tharp quoted Chiba: ‘1 blame all my Photography Editor, NY Bureau
a military tribunal boyfriends for not finding the lump in my US News & World Report
to reopen the case breast much sooner.” active resident
against Grigory ♦
Pasako, 38, a former The Online News Association and ADMISSIONS COMMITTEE:
Russian naval jour­ Columbia University’s Graduate School George Bookman, Chair
nalist charged with of Journalism presented their first Online Elinor Griest
treason after he Journalism Awards in December to 12 Dwight Sargent
reported to Japan’s Grigory Pasako online news organizations. The Asso­
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PEOPLE France. Launched nearly three years ago the Foreign Correspondents’ Club on
(Continued from Page 7) with a circulation of 50,000, Forbes Dec. 3,1971. As was their custom, board
asked not to be identified, said, “We’re Global said its circulation reached members waited at the curb outside the
pretty sure American soldiers were 110,000 in January. Club to greet Lindsay. Guests of honor
instrumental in killing Korean civilians at always arrived by chauffeured car. While
No Gun Ri. What is less clear is the num­ TAIPEI: The Taiwan government in waiting for the mayor, a board member
ber who died and whether there were any November announced relaxed mles under glanced to his right, saw a hatless man
orders issued to the soldiers.” Reporting which correspondents from Communist walking towards the club, towering over
the Pentagon statement, Christopher China can visit the island. A spokesman Japanese pedestrians, and exclaimed:
Marquis and Steven Lee Myers of The for anti-Communist Taiwan said the new “There he is!” Lindsay had walked about
New York Times wrote that “scores and mles were designed to attract more jour­ a mile from Tokyo Governor Ryokichi
possibly hundreds of unarmed Korean nalists from China. “We hope mainland Minobe’s office “to get to know the city.”
civilians...were reportedly machine- reporters can have more contact with and ♦
gunned by American soldief s at a railroad a deeper understanding of the current sit­ New faces in the Correspondents’
bridge near No Gun Ri.” South Korea uation in Taiwan,” Lee Cher-jean, Club: Stephen Lunn, The Australian,
said 248 civilians were killed, wounded deputy director of the Government who up to 10 years ago worked in Tokyo
or missing in the No Gun Ri incident, but Information Office, as a lawyer in a Japanese law firm; Peter
U.S. investigators insisted the number of said. “We want them Lyon, Motor Magazine of Australia;
casualties was lower but could not be to offer people on the Mitsuaki Iwase of the Japanese news
determined exactly. mainland more in- agency Jiji Press, who was based in New
♦ depth stories about York 1976-1978 and appointed London
Isabelle Reckeweg Clary is back in the island.” The new bureau chief in 1997; Masao Ninagawa,
New York City after a year on the rules allow each former correspondent in India for Japan’s
Reuters financial desk in Paris and in De­ mainland Chinese daily Asahi Shimbun; Gert Anhalt, ZDF
cember was working for globalnet media organization of Germany, formerly its Beijing bureau
financial.com. She started with Reuters in to post two reporters chief; Koji Kawamura, Japan’s TV
New York, covering the Federal Reserve in Taipei for up to Lee Cher-jean Asahi, who earlier covered the Middle
and bond markets, and was transferred to one month. An editor and reporter from East, Southeast Asia, United Nations and
her native France in September 1999. Xinhua, China’s official news agency, Latin America; Masanori Kikuta,
Before joining Reuters, Isabelle was a were expected to be the first to come to Japan’s Kyodo News, who reported from
UPI correspondent in Jakarta, Boston, Taiwan under the new policy. Since Malaysia and the Persian Gulf War; Bene
Washington and on the New York finan­ 1989, when the two opposing govern­ R. Prusher, The Christian Science
cial desk. ments first permitted journalist Monitor, formerly based in Jerusalem;
exchanges, 300 mainland reporters have Yuzo Yamaguchi, Automotive News,
SAN FRANCISCO: OPC member visited Taiwan for short periods, while who started in journalism in 1988 with
Kerry Dolan moved in November with more than 3,000 Taiwan journalists have Economic World, a monthly magazine;
her husband to San Francisco from New reported from China. and Todd John Zaun, The Wall Street
York after Forbes magazine promoted Journal, a former reporter in Tokyo for
her from associate to senior editor. ‘I’m TOKYO: Canadian journalist John Bloomberg Business News and AP.
writing internationally-focused stories out Bosnitch is the new editor of No. 1
of Forbes’ Silicon Valley bureau and Shimbun, monthly newspaper of the WASHINGTON: Terry Anderson,
expect to be traveling as needed,” she Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan, his wife Madeleine Bassil and their
told the Bulletin. “I’ll also continue to press run about 2,000. Bosnitch works for daughter Sulome are scheduled to
oversee Forbes’ list of the world’s bil­ IMCnews.com, an Internet news agency, receive $41.2 million from the U.S. gov­
lionaires in 2001.” Kerry joined Forbes and Japan Broadcasting Corporation ernment in compensatory damages for
in 1994 after working for Market News (NHK). Freelancer and OPC member Pat the 2,454 days he was held captive in
Service, a New York-based financial Killen was Shimbun editor for eight years Lebanon after being kidnapped in 1985
newswire, and in Tokyo for English-lan­ until 1999. Khaldon Azari, a Syrian cor­ by Iranian-backed terrorists. In Decem­
guage publications of Nihon Keizai respondent in the Middle East and Asia ber, Anderson told the Bulletin the U.S.
Shimbun, Japan’s leading business and for 25 years, served as editor 1999-2000, Congress and the Clinton administration
financial daily. She was co-editor of the and Killen then returned as acting editor have approved payment to his family
OPC Bulletin 1997-1998 and a board until Bosnitch’s appointment. from the U.S. Trea­
member 1998-2000. ♦ sury. “The check is
After John Lindsay, 79, New York in the mail,” he said.
SINGAPORE: In December, OPC City’s mayor, 1966-1973, died Dec. 19, In addition to the
member Justin Doebele, Forbes senior Robert W. Laird, his former deputy Andersons, seven
editor-Asia, sent the Bulletin a report that press secretary, recalled in New York’s other families who
with circulation gains Forbes Global now Daily News: “The image of Lindsay were victims of
is being printed in Singapore for readers walking the streets, in good times and Iranian terrorism are
in Asia, two years ahead of plan. bad, is a valid one because it was his receiving payments,
Previously, all copies of the magazine’s trademark.” During a visit to Tokyo, USA Today reported.
international edition were printed in Lindsay spoke at a professional lunch in Payouts authorized Terty Anderson
OPC Bulletin • January 2001 • Page 8
for the eight families total more than he conducted in 1961 with Admiral Hitler,’ as their patrons left without leav­
$213 million. Anderson filed a lawsuit Arleigh Burke, then chief of U. S. Naval ing a tip... .Salzburg must be considered a
against Iran in a U.S. federal court, and Operations (March 2000 Bulletin). At a thing of the past.” Kelley married
last March the judge ordered Iran to pay time when President Kennedy’s adminis­ Thomas Martin, who conducted the New
$341 million to the Anderson family tration was hoping to improve relations York City Opera, and in 1941 they began
(May 2000 Bulletin). But the U.S. gov­ with Moscow, Burke criticized the Soviet collaborating on translating European
ernment authorized a lower payment Union in the Demetracopoulos interview. librettos into English. Ruth Kelley
from U.S. funds. Washington will But the attempt ‘TO DENY SUBJ ANY Martin, 86, died Dec. 11 in her New
attempt to collect the money from Iran or SUBSEQUENT ENTRY TO U.S.” York City home.
from frozen Iranian assets. Anderson, failed. ♦
who was kidnapped when he was an AP ♦ Daniel Singer, 74, a longtime corre­
correspondent, now teaches journalism at OPC member Wes Pedersen has spondent for The Nation and The
Ohio University. received the “Best of the Century” com­ Economist, died of cancer Dec. 2 in Paris.
♦ munications award from Associated Bom in Warsaw, Singer with his mother
Two one-act plays by OPC member Trends, journal of the U.S. Association and sister fled from Nazi German soldiers
Rachael Bail were performed at the Community. A former columnist, in World War II and settled in France.
National Press Club last year. One play, Pedersen now is communications director When French police threatened to arrest
“Return to Vietnam,” tells the story of an at the Public Affairs Council in them in 1942, the family escaped to
American pilot’s nostalgic journey to Washington. Switzerland. In 1946, Singer started his
sites of the war, and the surprises he gets. journalism career in London as an editor
The other, “Thousands of Years— CORRECTIONS: Geopolitically, for The Economist. From 1958-1970, he
Rome,” follows a young couple through the “People” columnist erred in the was the magazine’s Paris correspondent.
many centuries and vicissitudes to the December Bulletin by using the dateline He then freelanced for BBC, the
present day. Bail has formed The “BETHLEHEM, Israel.” A reader quick­ International Herald Tribune and The
McLean Drama Company, which will ly pointed out that Bethlehem is on the Nation. He joined The Nation’s staff in
present readings and productions of new West Bank, where Palestinians mle. 1981, serving as its European correspon­
plays by area playwrights. The group also Former OPC member Wayne Penn­ dent until his death.
plans to conduct a 10-minute play con­ ington (not Patterson as written in the ♦
test. November Bulletin) was a PR colleague About three hours after finishing a dis­
♦ of OPC member Elmer M. Borsuk, who patch for UPI in his Tokyo home Nov.
In a once classified message, the died last year. 21, OPC member Edward A. Neilan, 68,
CIA said it was reluctant to take action felt ill. His wife, Mase Sato, called an
IN MEMORY
against Elias P. Demetracopoulos as ambulance that took him to St. Luke’s
requested by the U.S. State Department, Before he was elected to the U.S. Hospital, where he was pronounced dead
because Demetracopoulos was joining Senate from California. Alan Cranston of an apparent heart attack. Four days
the OPC at that time. Dated Nov. 13, was a correspondent for International before his death, he presided at a Tokyo
1963, the CIA message read: “STATE News Service in London, Rome and news conference and appeared to be in
PRESSING FOR ANY SUBSTAN­ Ethiopia and proud to have been sued by good health. During his 43-year career,
TIVE DEROG[atory] DATA WHICH Adolf Hitler. AP reported: “In 1939, after Neiland was a Tokyo correspondent for
CAN BE UTILIZED TO DENY leaving the news agency, Cranston edited The Christian Science Monitor, Copley
SUBJ[ect—Demetracopoulos] ANY the first unexpurgated English translation News Service’s Hong Kong bureau chief,
SUBSEQUENT ENTRY TO U.S. of Adolf Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ pub­ editor and publisher of The Alexandria
SINCE SUBJ ALREADY BEING lished in the United States. Hitler suc­ (Virginia) Gazette
SPONSORED FOR NEW YORK cessfully sued for copyright violation, and foreign editor of
OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB SUCH and for decades, Cranston’s résumé The Washington
STATE ACTION MIGHT BALLOON proudly included the fact that he had been Times, later its corre­
INTO CAUSE CELEBRE BUT HAVE sued by the German dictator.” Cranston spondent in Asia. He
PROMISED STATE WE DOING ALL was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1968 covered the Vietnam
POSSIBLE TO UNEARTH FACTU­ and served four terms until retiring in War and the crack­
AL DEROG INFO. PLS CABLE ANY 1993. He died Dec. 31 at his home in Los down on student
INFO [words deleted] WHICH Altos, California, at age 86. demonstrators in
COULD BE PASSED TO STATE.” ♦ Beijing’s Tiananmen
Demetracopoulos, 72, sent the From Europe in the late 1930s, Ruth Square. Starting in Edward A. Neilan
Bulletin a copy of the CIA message that Berenice Kelley contributed several 1993 and until his death, Neilan wrote a
he obtained through the Freedom of reports on European musical events to column on East Asian affairs that was
Information Act, “which takes a lot of The New York Times. In a dispatch on the syndicated to more than 30 newspapers in
money to pay the high-priced lawyers,” 1938 Salzburg Festival, she wrote: the United States, Chile, Japan, Singa­
he said. The copy does not disclose to “Swastikas and pictures of Hitler smoth­ pore, South Korea, Australia and New
whom the message was sent. ered the renowned Baroque buildings, Zealand.
Demetracopoulos, a Greek journalist, got and native restaurateurs, whose cheerful Of Neilan, OPC member Amaud De
in trouble with the White House and the ‘Griiss Gott’ used to lessen the blow of a Borchgrave commented: ‘Totally dedi-
State Department because of an interview large bill, now shouted morosely, ‘Heil (Continued on Page 10)
OPC Bulletin • January 2001 • Page 9
PEOPLE Fairfax, Virginia, home. He specialized ♦
(Continued from Page 9) in Middle East coverage. Diagnosed Thomas Quinn Curtiss, 85, an
cated and indefatigable, Ed was a superb with a kidney ailment when he was a American journalist who had lived in
editorial leader. He was also a widely child, Blackton had been treated by dial­ Paris since 1950, died last July 17 at
respected foreign correspondent.” ysis since the 1960s. His family said he Poissy, France, outside Paris. A theater
Neilan was foreign editor of The was one of the nation’s longest-surviv­ and film reviewer in Paris, Curtiss
Washington Times when De Borchgrave ing dialysis patients. Blackton was one worked for The New York Herald
was the newspaper’s editor-in-chief. of the founders of the American Tribune and The New York Times in the
During the six months before he died, Association of Kidney Patients. 1960s before joining The International
Neilan was Tokyo stringer for UPI of ♦ Herald Tribune. He dined regularly at
which De Borchgrave now is president. Robert Greabell, 82, a Stars & restaurant Tour d’Argent, where he
From Tokyo, OPC member Patrick Stripes staffer in Europe, 1960-1965, interviewed such stars as Marlene
Killen commented: “Ed was a fine, died in Syracuse, New York, last Dietrich and Paulette Goddard. Curtiss
knowledgeable journalist and an innova­ October following a heart attack. After wrote a biography of film director Erich
tive editor. He could turn a phrase with 22 years in the U.S. Army including ser­ von Stroheim [1971] and “The Smart
the best of them. His friendly and per­ vice in World War II and the Korean Set: George Jean Nathan and H. L.
sonable manner served him well in his and Vietnam Wars, Greabell worked for Mencken” [1998]. The New York Times
professional and private life.” Diane 17 years as a copy editor on the reported his death on Nov. 30, explain­
Yukihiro Chang, a columnist for The Syracuse Herald-Journal, retiring in ing: “Publication was delayed by an
Honolulu Star Bulletin that publishes his 1983. He was president of the Syracuse editing oversight.”
column, wrote: “I couldn’t help but Press Club in 1974.
mourn that Ed Neilan never got to see
the place [Honolulu] he’d always
dreamed of visiting. But then I realized
Sonya Fry, OPC
that, while he’d never actually come
here, his writings about Japan, Taiwan, Executive Director,
China, Korea and other Far Eastern
ports did hit these shores.” visited the Circolo Della
Neilan was a media fellow at the
Hoover Institute at Stanford University; Stampa, better known
senior fellow in the Asian Studies
Center of the Heritage Foundation, a as the Milan Press Club,
Washington think tank; visiting profes­
sor at universities in Shanghai and while on a trip through
Taipei; former first vice president of the
northern Italy last
Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan; M
and an OPC Award winner several years
summer. They win the
ago.
♦
most beautiful room for
Andy Logan, 80,
who reported from
a press conference
the Nuremburg war I
crimes trials for The
category by a mile.
New Yorker and cov­
ered New York’s H_________
City Hall 25 years
for the magazine,
died Nov. 21 in her
New York City
home. She had been Andy Logan
ill with pancreatic cancer. Named Isabel
Ann, she changed her name in college to
Andy. She detested the nickname Izzy
and chose Andy in honor of New Yorker
essayist E. B. White, who was known
as Andy, James C. McKinley Jr. wrote
in The New York Times.
♦
William Blackton, 53, who retired
last year as a senior editor and writer at
Voice of America, died of kidney dis­
ease Nov. 13 in a hospital near his
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