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Is It Curtains For Foreign Correspondents? Not Exactly

In their place comes a global journalistic cadre defined by skills, persistence, elegance and intelligence – as opposed to passport

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Dan Perry
May 02, 2022
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Author (right) coverage an anti-communist rally in Bucharest, 1990

What could be better than being a foreign correspondent? Over some decades of it I was befriended by Jamaican Maroons, grilled by Moldovan peasants and labelled “zen” by Bono. I huddled with Yasser Arafat, offended Prince Phillip and was abandoned in mid-interview by John McCain. Between …

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