EDITOR'S NOTE
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Promising responses
Remembering the fallen war coffespondents
me against this dent.
"Don'tgel
shers agreed!
for relaunching The ComesþondBnt. Nor did any seriously doubt its scope to attract advertisements and become a self-supporting publi-
cation. Their doubts centred on editorial success. Could
members be relied upon for editorial contributions so that the space between advertisements could regularþ be filled with interesting copy, theY wondered. Whether or-not their concern is well-founded, the fact is Club members collectively represent a wealth of creative talent; and that wealth is not confined to those who are directly involved with the information industry. Contributions which some of our associate members make to other publications confirm this' These resources pooled together can make The Corresþondent a
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rnp coRnnspoNDENT
NovEMBER
1987
A L I.
ifäl:
ndthe
Middle East. In Arlington National Cemetery, where America's war dead rest, a memorial tree and a memorial stone were dedicated last year to joumaiists and photographers killed while covering armed conflicts for US women \Mere recorded on a plaque that was
in Vietnam; and a niece of Alec Shimkin,
Lawrence Jenco, who spent 19 months as a
welcome. In a letter that was enclosed with his contribution Al Kaff said,
he
N GETTING this magazine going, we have a number of club members to thank for sharing their advice
and
experience.
Raise a giass, please, to Richard Ashworth, Chris Cheney, Stephen Ellis, Alan Fairnington, Richard Gocher, Robert Har1and, Roy Howard, Simon Martin, Michael O'Neill, Bernard PeWin, Michael Rosenberg, Alec Stables and Freddie Wadsworth. Special thanks to Bob Klaverkamp for helping to put me in touch with many of these gents. And a toast, too, to Michael Dalton, iongtime Learned Friend of the Club.
Berton Woodward Chairmt¿n, Publimtions Sub-committee
children oÍLarry Burrows, Life magazine, killed in Laos in 1971, and of James J. McElroy, military combat correspondent, killed on Iwo Jima in 1945; children of Paul Schutzer, Life,killed in Israel in 1967, and died in 1966 of a tropical disease contracted
P. Viswa Nathan
contributions on time to meet the deadline for this reincarnation. A special thanks to Barry Wain who, though not a member of the Club now, contributed an article on a topic that is of major interest to all newsmen and others interested in the freedom of information. A longtime menber of the Club and a regular at the main bar once said to me: "if you need entertainment, come to the main bar; all kinds of drama unfolds here." Arthur Hacker begins to satirise some of those scenes with the introduction of The Zoo, a regular feature. Other artists like him might see other situations that could liven up this magazine. Such contributions are always
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gathered in New York City's Sheraton Centre Hotel to see the plaque unveiled. The memorial was unveiled by grand-
of Maggie Higgins, Herald Tribune, who
The Corresþondznt alvtays was welcome reading and congratulated the Club for revivir,g it as a professional journal. "Such publications," he said, "are one of the finest projects which a professional club such as ours can adopt." With this issue we take the first step towards that goal.
Arthur Hacker
and Zelda Cawthorne for sending their
friends of journalists who died in battle
This year, the names of those men and unveiled in New York City on October 7 by children and grandchildren of fallen war corespondents. The plaque lists 231 men and women - Americans, Japanese, Filipinos and other nationalities who lost their lives while covering the Spanish Civil War, Worìd War II, the Korean War, theVietnam War and "Those Little Wars," as Ted Yates called 20th Century revolts, coups d'etat, hostilities, presences, police actions, riots, interventions and rebellions which "if you cover them, it's surprising how much they resemble war." Yates was killed in Jordan in 1967. The honowed correspondents died on combat assþments from battlefield wounds or illnesses or while travelling to or from hostilities. A special tribute to Teny Anderson, the AP correspondent still held hostage in Beirut, was deìivered by Father
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ing with The Review.
Two hturdred and thirty-one colTespondents lost their lives covering armed conflicts for US
media.
Thanks for all the help
During the past year, 45 leading airlines and Aero Industry Advertisers invested in 460 pages of advertis-
By AI Kaff
prisoner
in Beirut, where he knew
the correspondent. Anderson's sister attended the ceremony. THE SPONSORS: The idea to memorialise
war
correspondents
was initiated by
Carmella LaSpada board chairman of No Greater Love, a humanitarian organisation which provides programmes of friendship and care for Americans who have lost family members in war or terrorism. Other sponsors were the Overseas Press Club of America, the National Press Club of Washington D.C., and Sigma Delta Chi,
an
American society
journalists. About 200 people
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of
professional
most of them former and
v/ar coffespondents, and relatives
freelancer , on Newsweek assignment, missing in Vietnam since 1972.
Unable to attend but listed on the unveiling programme were Yates' son and the grandson ofByron Darnton, Th¿ New York T'imes, k:lled in New Guinea in 1942. EYEWITNESS' EXHIBITS: The reception hall featwed an exhibit of photographs of and by correspondents in Paris, the Han River, Saigon and other flashpoints where US troops have fought since World War I. Printed notes at the ceremony said that only 36 reporters were accredited to the
American Expeditionary Force in World War I. Accreditions totalled 1,100 in World War II, 350 in Korea and as many as 5,000 in Vietnam, according to the programme notes.
Miss LaSpada said that no American correspondent was killed in World War I, according
to the
historic records
she
searched. TRIBUTES BY VETERANS: Brief tributes were delivered by 16 former r¡/ar correspondents, many of them old Asia hands. They were: From World War II Andy Rooney, Stars & Strþes (now CBÐ; Drew
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made the first radio news broadcast from Shanghai. Vietnam War - Dan Rather, CBS; Eddie Adams, AP (now Time and Parad.emagazine); Vo Huynh, NBC; Hugh Mulligan, AP, and Peter Jennings, ABC. John Rich, now retired from NBC was master of ceremonies. He covered World War II, Korea and Vietnam. Korea was the last war with formal
military censorship of battlefield
dis-
patches. At the ceremony, Korean War correspondents sang a song to the tune of "Glory Glory Hallelujah":
"Mine eyes have seen the censor With my copy on his knee; He was crossing out the passages That mean the most to me. This sentence hurts morale As it's defined in Section Three, This passage must come outl"
THE FIRST MEMORIAL: Miss LaSpada said the first US memorial to journalists killed in battle was a war corespondents arch erected in Mysersville, Maryland, in 1896 to honow writers, painters and artists who coverecl the American Civil War. Other memorials listed in the programme
notes are located in the Pentagon (1948 and 1972),the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan (1976), Munsan, Korea (1977), Ohio
University (1981), Washington's Nationai Press Club (1985) and Arlington National Cemetery (1986). The plaque dedicated in New York City now hangs in the Overseas Press Club. Copies are located in the
National Press Club and the headquarters of Sigma Delta Chi. Hosts at the New York ceremony were Jim Plante, president-elect of Sigma Delta
Middleton, The New York Times; Enc
Chi, Herb Kupferberg, president of
Sevareid, CBS; Robert Sherrod, Time-Life and Carl Mydans, Life.
Overseas Press Club and Andrew Mollison,
the
president of the National Press Club.
Korean War
- Al Kaff, UP(now Cornell University); Nate Polowetsþ, AP,and Bob Al Ka./[, þt'csidenl rf lhe Rreign Conesþondøts
Schakne, ,INS (now CBS).
Those Little Wars
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Robert Rogers,
NBC. Women Correspondents - Irene Corbally Kuhn, Hearst News Seruice, who in 1925
Chtb
of Jaþan, 1967-68, and þresident of lhe Hong Kong Foreign Concsþondents Club 1974-75, was a IIPI nnesþondcnl and news esceculiue in Asia from 1952 to 1983 He non is business and inlentational edilor for lhe news setaice at Cornell Uniuersitl, Ithaca, New York.
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