THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, , NY • JANUARY 2012 Gathering to Celebrate Food on the Frontlines they also seek respite in food, drink EVENT PREVIEW: JANUARY 4 and stories about food and drink. A profile of a former chef of Kim by Sonya K. Fry Jong Il of North Korea describes Although not the usual fare for a Kim’s exacting standards for gour- holiday party, “mud crabs” is includ- met fare, which he gorges himself ed in the name of a new book, Eat- on while his country starves. An in- ing Mud Crabs in Kandahar, edited experienced female shares by Matt McAllester. The book con- mud crab in a foxhole with an equal- sists of reports by foreign correspon- ly young Hamid Karzai. dents that are sometimes harrowing, In 1962 the OPC published frequently funny and riveting stories a similar book titled “Overseas about food and eating under extreme Press Club Cookbook: Famous conditions. The names of the corre- correspondents’ anecdotes and spondents will be familiar — OPC recipes from all over the world” award winner Barbara Demick from edited by Sigrid Schultz. North Korea, Janine di Giovanni on Although OPC Holiday Par- Bosnian siege food, Scott Ander- ties have always been fun, atten- son from Northern Ireland, Joshua dance has dwindled and costs es- denly you realize that you are fasci- Hammer from Gaza and Israel, calated so it was decided to have nated by and finally understand a part Tim Hetherington on MREs and an interesting program with some of the world that had previously just a stray cow in the Korengal Val- platters of food and a cash bar. been confusing and overwhelming. ley of and the list goes Matt McAllester has written With one great read after another, on. As these report from several books Beyond the Moun- you will remember these scenes, the most dangerous conflict zones, tains of the Damned: The War In- these characters, for a long time.” side Kosovo, Blinded by the Sun- McAllester says that the stories light about McAllester’s detention are seasoned by tragedy and violence, in Iraq which was an OPC Book spiced with humor and goodwill and Night, and his best recommendation fortified with “a little more human- for editing a book on food Lessons ity than we can usually slip into our from My Mother’s Kitchen. McAll- newspapers and magazine stories.” ester recently joined the new News- So bring your humor and good will Mud Crabs editor, Matt McAllester week team as Senior Editor/News. and join your fellow OPC members Adam Davidson, founder and as we toast the New Year and listen host of NPR’s Planet Money praises to correspondents McAllester and Inside. . . the book “These are powerful, inti- Charlie Sennott of GlobalPost and Holbrooke Event Recap...... 2 mate stories from some of the best others tell their tales of deprivation war correspondents of our time – the and repression, as well as generosity OPC President’s Letter...... 3 kind of stories they tell each other and pleasure. The Book Night will about everyday life in some of the be held on Wednesday, January 4 at Asia Luncheon Recap...... 4 most difficult places on Earth. By Club Quarters, 40 West 45 Street at People...... 4-7 seducing you with simple tales of 6 p.m. A Reception will follow and food, your defenses are down, you books will be available for purchase New Books...... 8 get lost in a good tale, and then, sud- and for signing. Holbrooke’s Work and Life Celebrated at Asia Society

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Richard C. Holbrooke, who died in December 2010, was a pivotal player in U.S. diplomacy for more than 40 years. As a diplomatic troubleshooter he worked for every Democrat president since the late 1960s and oversaw nego- tiations that ended the war in Bosnia. The Obama administration’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pak- istan from February 2009 until his death, Holbrooke helped shape the civilian component of the administration’s Af- ghanistan strategy, deploying more than Lesley Topping 1,000 diplomats and aid workers to help Panel from left: Kati Marton, Roger Cohen, Afghans rebuild their state institutions. Gordon Goldstein and David Rohde. President Obama eulogized Holbrooke as “a towering figure in American foreign Vietnam, and two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist policy,” and “a critical member of my Afghanistan and David Rohde. Pakistan team, and a tireless public servant.” In the wake of NATO’s bombing of a Pakistani mili- On November 29, the OPC and Asia Society New tary outpost the preceding weekend, which threatened to York commemorated the publication of The Unquiet send U.S.-Pakistani relations to a historic low, the pan- American: in the World, a collec- elists perhaps inevitably reflected on how things might tion of essays by friends and colleagues who knew him best, as well as excerpts from Holbrooke’s own tren- have been different had Holbrooke not died suddenly chant writing. The event took off with a panel discussion nearly one year ago. Rohde, for instance, commented moderated by New York Times Op-Ed columnist Roger that Holbrooke’s innate diplomatic instincts enabled him Cohen that included journalist Kati Marton (Holbrooke’s to “get” how America’s relationship with Pakistan has to widow), historian Gordon Goldstein, author of Lessons be founded on respect — a position, he suggested, that in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in may be lost on other U.S. officials.

OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA • BOARD OF GOVERNORS PRESIDENT SECRETARY Tim Ferguson Toni Reinhold ASSOCIATE BOARD PAST PRESIDENTS David A. Andelman Jane Ciabattari Editor Editor in Charge, ­MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO Editor Author/Journalist Forbes Asia New York Desk Bill Collins John Corporon World Policy Journal Reuters Director, Public & Allan Dodds Frank ACTIVE BOARD Chrystia Freeland Business Affairs Alexis Gelber FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Ron Allen Global Editor-at-Large Tom Squitieri Ford Motor Company William J. Holstein Marcus Mabry Correspondent Thomson Reuters Freelance Journalist Marshall Loeb Editor at Large NBC News Emma Daly Larry Martz International Herald Tribune Evelyn Leopold Gillian Tett Communications Roy Rowan Rebecca Independent Journalist U.S. Managing Editor Director Leonard Saffir SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Blumenstein United Nations Financial Times Larry Smith Michael Serrill Page One Editor Richard B. Stolley Assistant Managing Editor Santiago Lyon Seymour Topping Sarah Lubman Bloomberg Markets Director of Emeritus Partner EXECUTIVE Jonathan Dahl Photography Professor of Brunswick Group DIRECTOR THIRD VICE PRESIDENT Editor-in-Chief Associated Pess International Sonya K. Fry Arlene Getz Smart Money Abi Wright Editor-in-Charge, Media Nikhil Deogun Abigail Pesta Columbia University Director EDITOR Thomson Reuters Managing Editor Editorial Director Alfred I. duPont- Aimee Vitrak CNBC Women in the World Joel Whitney Columbia University TREASURER Editor Awards OPC Jacqueline Albert- Adam B. Ellick Guernica ISSN-0738-7202 Simon Video and Print ­Copyright © 2002 U. S. Bureau Chief Journalist Over­seas Press Club of Politique Internationale America

40 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036 USA • Phone: (212) 626-9220 • Fax: (212) 626-9210 • Website: opcofamerica.org OPC Bulletin • January 2012 • Page 2 OPC Into the Future With an Award to Include Twitter Posts LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT Forty-four years ago today as I write this, Sey- ing news event. The Tweets can be submitted as an mour Topping, one of our newest Overseas Press adjunct to a submission of traditional reporting, or as Club Board members, and then the foreign editor of a stand-alone submission. Screen grabs of a Twitter The New York Times, took a chance account can be submitted as .jpgs.” on a young Newsday reporter and We will also be adding an award recognizing Best hired him as his news assistant. International Business Reporting Online while ex- His aim was to bring new, young panding the award for best broadcast reporting on the talent onto the foreign staff of The human condition to include online work as well. Times, many of whose members In terms of events, we were privileged to receive on that December day in 1968 had at a luncheon Mikhail Zygar, the 31-year-old found- begun their careers reporting from ing head of TV-Rain, the only truly independent tele- the front lines of World War II. I vision and Internet news operation based in Moscow, was 24 years old then, and Top set David Andelman which for the past year has provided exhilarating, ob- me on a course that has taken me jective and fearless news and commentary, across the through 72 countries and untold adventures over the nine time zones of Russia and through most territo- ensuing decades. ries of the former Soviet Union as well. Mikhail, who My mission, when I took over as president 16 also visited NBC, MSNBC, CBS and CNN and the months ago, was a similar one — to attract new young Committee to Protect Journalists International Press blood to our nearly three-quarter century old organi- Freedoms Awards gala during his week in the United zation and especially to our awards process, as well as States, explained to members of the OPC’s Freedom our events and those whose causes we espouse around of the Press committee the challenges on reporting the world. Above all, my goal is to make the Overseas from a nation that has still not fully escaped its past Press Club as exciting, as vibrant and as relevant to when the Kremlin controlled every media outlet. today’s media universe and the vastly different world Shortly after I joined The Times on December 23, of the overseas correspondent and commentator as it 1968, I recall Top telling me that you could always was the day of its founding. Back then, a vastly ex- tell foreign correspondents, home from their first panded assemblage of newspapers and magazines and overseas assignment. They would have their Burberry a vastly slimmer world of radio and television were trench coat and Rolex GMT Master. I made sure I was the only media available. No longer. Now, cable, the suitably supplied and indeed still have both as part Internet and social media have earned their place at of my accoutrements. Meanwhile, we’re confident the international communications table. that going forward, our OPC will continue to meet So last year, we undertook the biggest single ex- the needs and recognize the successes of all our col- pansion of our prize categories in the history of the leagues wherever their assignments may take them. Overseas Press Club, adding five online awards. Last Finally, to all our members, their families and April, we presented six prizes recognizing excellence friends, a happy, safe, healthy, and productive New in an increasingly expanding corner of the media uni- Year! verse. Each day, the Internet reaches globally more readers and viewers than any other single category. Best regards, This year, at the urging of our board member, Adam B. Ellick of The New York Times, we are taking anoth- er big step by admitting Twitter submissions, which is a recognition of the vital importance of such a rivet- ing media this has become in reporting and shaping David A. Andelman news from some of the most fraught corners of the world. The notice, crafted by Adam, is intended for sub- missions in Best Online Coverage of Breaking News: “Applicants are also allowed to submit an aggrega- tion of live Tweets during a 72-hour period of a break-

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The People column was written Risen and “an attempt by the Obama an appeal would be heard only after by Susan Kille. For news tips, e-mail administration to undermine a funda- Times Now deposited Rs. 200 mil- [email protected]. If you are mental principle of press freedom.” lion and guaranteed the remainder. interested in writing for the People and New Books columns, e-mail the NEW DELHI: The Supreme PRISTINA, Kosovo: Veton editor at [email protected]. Court has refused to intervene in the Surroi, a Kosovo journalist, pub- unprecedented award of Rs. 1 billion lisher, politician and human rights PRESS FREEDOM ($19 million) in a defamation suit activist, on November 24 received The OPC has protested the U.S. brought by a former chairman of the the 2011 SEEMO Human Rights government’s appeal of court deci- Press Council of India. In a Septem- Award. The South East Europe Me- sions quashing subpoenas to force ber 2008 report about a controversy dia Organization praised Surroi’s James Risen of The New York Times involving judges, the Times Now non-violent methods and consistent to testify against a former CIA offi- television channel mentioned Judge “commitment to human rights.” In cer accused of leaking national se- P.K. Samantha, but for 15 seconds 2000, Surroi, who founded the Koha curity secrets to him. In an October displayed a photo of P.B. Sawant, a Media Group, received the Award of 28 letter to President Barack Obama retired judge and former Press Coun- the Year from the International Fed- and Attorney General , cil chairman. The picture was not eration of Journalists. Jeremy Main and Larry Martz of shown in later reports. Times Now the Freedom of the Press Committee ran an apology for five days. The dis- : Mona Eltahawy, an called the appeals a vendetta against trict court that set the fine ruled that Egyptian-American journalist, re-

Gold Rush to Asia Not Far Fetched Nor Too Far Away nin, noted that where there EVENT RECAP: NOVEMBER 29 is great reward in startups, there is also a great amount by Aimee Vitrak OPC member Rebecca Fannin of risk. spoke at an OPC luncheon to discuss Fannin noted a slew of her book, Startup Asia: Top Strate- facts to lead off the lun- gies for Cashing in on Asia’s Inno- cheon. Since 2006, there vation Boom [Wiley, October 2011]. are more than six thousand Fannin travels extensively between startups funded at the early the American East Coast, Silicon stage — the money being spread largely between

Valley and the hot spots of East Asia. Aimee Vitrak This is her second book, following and India. China is Silicon Dragon: How China Is Win- second in venture capital Rebecca Fannin and Bill Holstein a purely manufacuring country and ning The Tech Race [McGraw Hill, funding in the world, with copying ideas from the west — to 2008.] Fannin said Start Up Asia is a India in the number three position actually becoming innovative. Twit- continuation of her first book. and with a leg up over the region be- Hosting the session was OPC cause of the predominance of Eng- ter China, Fannin said, is way ahead Foundation President William J. lish. China, Fannin said, is a leader of its U.S. model having instituted Holstein, who also has deep experi- in patent applications, and that re- video and photo sharing. ence with innovation on both sides search and development money is on When asked if Asia was indeed of the Pacific. About 22 people gath- the rise. Largely spiked by the U.S. experiencing a modern-day gold ered around the table, many of whom stagnation, American venture capi- rush, Fannin said, “I think not yet, also have a deep understanding of talists have started to look eastward, but not too long.” The luncheon was the region and the emerging mar- especially as China is slowly — Fan- sponsored by Lenovo, the Chinese kets, although a few, including Fan- nin acknowledged — stretching from multi-national tech company.

OPC Bulletin • January 2012 • Page 4 December 26. The defendants, im- Minh Hoang, convicted of writing prisoned since March, remain in cus- anti-government documents, from tody. The IPI and other international three years to 17 months but upheld journalism groups on November 24 a sentence of three years house arrest demanded that Turkey release all 64 following the prison term. Hoang, journalists it has detained. who has French and Vietnamese dual citizenship, used the blog name of BRUSSELS: In a landmark de- Phan Kien Quoc to write about edu- cision, Europe’s highest court ruled cation, environment and Vietnam’s Mona Eltahawy November 24 that copyrights cannot sovereignty disputes with China. ported she was sexually and physi- be protected at the expense of basic cally assaulted while being detained rights to freedom of information and TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras: for 12 hours following her November privacy. The Court of Justice of the A security guard was injured when 23 arrest by Egyptian riot police. She European Union overruled a Bel- gunmen in a car attacked the office of emerged to criticize her treatment gium court that would have required La Tribuna in the early hours of De- wearing two casts, one for a broken Internet service providers, or ISPs, cember 5, after the daily newspaper arm and one for a broken hand. Be- to snoop on users. An association of published reports that linked local fore moving to the U.S. in 2000, El- authors, composers, and publishers, police to recent murders. La Tribuna tahawy was a Reuters correspondent had gone to court to force ISPs to use reported 10 shots were fired, leaving in Cairo and Jerusalem and covered filtering or blocking to prevent ille- bullet holes in the walls and shatter- the for . gal downloading of music. ing a glass door. Martin Ramirez, She is a widely published columnist the editor, said police arrived at the and participated in the OPC Awards MINDANAO, Philippines: A scene five hours later. Dinner program in April by lighting radio journalist who reported on cor- the Press Freedom Candle in mem- ruption and drug trafficking survived MURDERS: Since Septem- ory of the 44 journalists killed in a November 24 shooting. Michael ber, the mutilated bodies of three 2010. Egyptian-American filmmaker James Licuanan, known as James bloggers and a newspaper editor who Jehane Noujaim, director of “Con- Dacoycoy to listeners of Bombo opposed drug cartels have been found trol Room,” a 2004 documentary Radyo, was riding home on a motor- in Nuevo Laredo in northeast Mexi- about , was detained the bike when two assailants, also on a co. The latest victim, found Novem- same day as Eltahawy and held for motorbike, shot him. Although seri- ber 9, was known by the nickname 36 hours but said she was not physi- ously injured, he managed to seek “Rascatripas” (Belly-Scratcher) and cally harmed. Caroline Sinz, a jour- help. The attack occurred one day af- helped moderate “Nuevo Laredo en nalist for French TV channel France ter the International Day to End Im- Vivo,” a website about organized 3, said she was sexually assaulted on punity, which marks the 2009 massa- crime. In September, the beheaded November 24 in when cre of 32 journalists and 26 civilians body of María Elizabeth Macías, a crowd attacked her and her camera- in the Philippines. The killers have editor in chief of Primera Hora in man. Sinz said the attack went on for not yet been brought to justice. Nuevo Laredo, was discovered in the about 45 minutes until a rescue by a same location. The mutilated bodies group of Egyptians. DUBAI: The president of the of a man and a woman were hung United Arab Emirates pardoned from a bridge in Nuevo Laredo. All ISTANBUL: Ten journalists are blogger Ahmed Mansoor and four four bodies were found with written on trial accused of links to a shad- other pro-democracy activists on warnings of similar fates for those owy group seeking to overthrow the November 28, a day after they were who report about organized crime. Turkish government. The defendants sentenced to two to three years in Ferzat Jarban, a freelance tele- include Nedim Şener, who in 2010 prison on charges of publicly insult- vision cameraman in Syria, was was named a World Press Freedom ing the country’s rulers and disrupt- found dead November 20, a day af- Hero by the International Press Insti- ing public order. Along with at least ter he was seen being arrested while tute following the publication of his 130 other Emiratis, the men signed a filming an anti-government demon- book on the murder of fellow Turk- petition in March, calling for consti- stration in Al-Qasir, a town in the ish journalist Hrant Dink; Ahmet tutional changes and free elections. province on Homs. Press reports said Şik, an investigative journalist; and his mutilated body was found in the Oda TV executive Soner Yalçın. HO CHI MINH CITY: An ap- middle of a main road in Al-Qasir. After the first hearing on Novem- peals court on November 29 reduced The Committee to Protect Journalists ber 22, the trial was postponed until the prison sentence against Pham (Continued on Page 6)

OPC Bulletin • January 2012 • Page 5 (Continued From Page 5) suspect and do not believe the assault said Jarban was the first journalist to was related to Rozvadovsky’s job be killed in Syria in connection to his but the International Press Institute work since CPJ kept detailed records has called for a full investigation. in 1992. Charles Ingabire, a Rwandan Rafiq Tağı, an outspoken Azer- journalist and critic of the Rwan- baijani journalist, died November dan government, was fatally shot 23, four days after being stabbed December 1 in Kampala, Uganda, repeatedly by an unknown assail- where he lived as a political refugee ant in Baku. Tağı, who press reports since 2007. He was editor of the op- said appeared to be recovering from position website Inyenyeri News, his wounds, claimed the attack was which reported that Ingabire had been threatened by Rwandan gov- Rina Castlenovo in a photo taken by retaliation for a recent opinion piece Sonya Fry at a café in East Jerusalem. criticizing the government of Iran. In ernment agents and that he recently 2007, Tağı was sentenced to prison spent two weeks in a hospital after Rina saw the photo, she responded to for inciting hatred with an article another attack. Ugandan police are Sonya “…you are a photographer.” critical of Islam but he was granted investigating the murder. amnesty following international KILLINGWORTH, CONN.: pressure. UPDATES Ed Ricciuti, an OPC member, has Vitaliy Rozvadovsky, a photo- HONG KONG: Sheridan Pras- begun a column called “Outdoors journalist for the Ukrainian weekly so, an OPC member and a veteran of With Ed Ricciuti” for Patch, AOL’s 2000, was stabbed to death Novem- Agence France-Presse, The Associ- network of hyperlocal news sites. He ber 28 in Kiev. Police say they have a ated Press, Business Week and For- writes about natural history, conser- tune, has transferred to Hong Kong vation issues, wildlife management, Overseas Press to work for Bloomberg. She will fishing, hunting and biology. be writing about financial markets. Although he writes for the Patch Club Foundation Robert Friedman, her former edi- network in , his column tor at Fortune, was instrumental in and other contributions to Patch are Annual Scholarship Luncheon Friday, February 17, 2012 organizing the move. He now holds used across the country. Outside a senior position at Bloomberg. of journalism, Ricciuti has begun Keynote Speaker a new venture, assuming co-pres- Jeff Fager JERUSALEM: Rina Castle- idency of Green Hill Martial Arts Chairman, CBS novo, a photojournalist for The New in Killingworth, Connecticut. Ric- News and Execu- York Times, received a 2005 John ciuti, 73, is a second-degree black tive Producer of Faber Award for her pictures of Is- belt in combat hapkido, which he “” raeli settlers being forced out of their teaches at the school. He also stud- homes in Gaza and the West Bank ies jun fan gung fu/jeet kune do by Israeli soldiers. She had planned and black dragon kung fu. Grand Ballroom, Yale Club 50 Vanderbilt Avenue to come to New York to receive her New York City award in person, but her husband LONDON: Stanley Reed, an needed an operation and she wanted Arabic-speaker with experience in Reception: 11:30 a.m. to stay with him. When OPC Execu- the Middle East, told former Busi- Luncheon: Noon to 2 p.m. tive Director Sonya Fry was on a nessWeek friends that he was leaving tour of Israel with her church group Bloomberg Business Week. Reed, an Benefactor Table: $8,000 this fall she contacted Rina, who OPC member, said he was looking Patron Table: $5,000 proved a gracious host arriving in a forward to new opportunities. Friend Table: $2,000 beat-up, mud-splattered van and tak- ing Sonya to various sites including u OPC Members: $75 lunch outdoors in East Jerusalem. Non-members: $125 Rina, her husband Jim Hollander, Club Quarters is planning a new For tickets contact: Jane Reilly at also a photographer with Reuters hotel at Lincoln’s Inn Field in Lon- [email protected] until recently, and Sonya talked shop don set to open in the spring of 2012. 201-493-9087 for several hours at their home before This will make four Club Quarters going to dinner. Sonya is proud of hotels in London and four Club this picture of Rina at a café. When Quarters hotels in New York City.

OPC Bulletin • January 2012 • Page 6 NEW YORK: Dan Rather, an Terry Anderson, who survived nomics and foreign affairs, including OPC member, received CPJ’s Bur- more than six years as a hostage the Iranian hostage crisis. He later ton Benjamin Memorial Award from in Lebanon, is a visiting professor was an editor and a deputy editor the Committee to Protect Journalists teaching international journalism of U.S. News & World Report until for his lifelong work in the cause of for the 2011-2012 academic year at 1996, when he became the editor and press freedom. The award was pre- Syracuse University’s Newhouse developer of washingtonpost.com. sented during the 2011 International School of Public Communications. He joined the Post’s corporate staff Press Freedom Awards at the Wal- Anderson, who was The Associ- in 2000 and launched a free daily dorf Astoria. ated Press bureau chief in the Mid- tabloid for commuters in 2003. dle East when he was kidnapped in u 1985, marked the 20th anniversary u of his release on December 4. John Bussey, a former OPC Anthony Miller, 68, a reporter u board member, has relocated from and editor for United Press Interna- Washington to New York for The tional, The , Reuters Wall Street Journal. Formerly based TURKEY: Two Turkish journal- and the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, in Tokyo, Bussey is assistant man- ists died in eastern Turkey when a aging editor and executive business hotel collapsed during a 5.6-magni- died November 23 after a long battle editor of The Journal and writes a tude earthquake on November 14. with prostate cancer. weekly column. Cem Emir and Sebahattin Yilmaz, During a 40-year career, Miller both of Turkey’s Dogan News lived and worked in 26 countries. u Agency, were killed while report- His work on UPI editing desks in- ing on the aftermath of a 7.2 earth- cluded handling the Israeli-Pales- Randall Lane, a one-time Forbes quake that struck October 23. Press tinian conflict and the fall of com- correspondent who created the Dou- reports have questioned whether munism in Europe. He once said he bledown media empire (with maga- the hotel, where 25 died, should considered the highlight of his jour- zines such as Trader and Dealmaker) have been closed following dam- nalism career his coverage of the before it collapsed, has re-emerged age in the October quake. Gulf War in 1991. as managing editor of Forbes. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT u u Aimee Vitrak, editor of the Bul- letin and OPC website and her hus- Reuters is engaged in sweeping band, Alex, welcomed Lev Nicho- Tom Wicker, 85, whose cover- personnel changes. James C. Smith, las Vitrak, their first child, into the age of the assassination of President chief operating officer, will replace world on December 1. Aimee reports John F. Kennedy is a journalism leg- Thomas Glocer as chief executive that she and her son are “happy, end, died November 25 of an appar- on Jan. 1. New Editor-in-Chief Steve healthy and tired.” Lev, who nicely ent heart attack. Adler has hired Alix Freedman timed his arrival with Aimee’s pro- Wicker, the only New York Times from The Wall Street Journal to man- duction sched- reporter who traveled with the presi- age ethics. Freedman is on the OPC ule for the dent to Dallas that day, dictated a re- Foundation board, which grants a Bulletin, has port that filled two columns on the scholarship in the name of her father, showed an at- front page and another page inside. Emanuel Freedman. Long-time tribute editors Americans were glued to their tele- magazine journalist Jim Gaines, an appreciate — visions after the killing, but Wicker OPC member, also has taken a se- getting in be- was the one who provided the most nior position, and Sir Harold Ev- fore deadline. comprehensive report of what hap- ans now is global editor at large for pened. He spent the rest of his career Reuters. Former New York Bureau PEOPLE REMEMBERED Chief Mark Egan took a new role Christopher Ma, 61, a veteran at The Times, becoming Washington within Reuters, while OPC Founda- journalist who became a senior vice Bureau chief and a columnist be- tion board members Betty Wong president for fore retiring in 1991. He published and Jack Reerink have left Reuters. Co., died November 23 after suffer- 20 books, including A Time to Die ing a heart attack. Ma was a Wash- about his experience as an observer u ington correspondent for Newsweek and mediator of the uprising at the magazine in the 1980s, covering eco- Attica prison in upstate New York.

OPC Bulletin • January 2012 • Page 7 physical health were broken in Aus- taurant in 1991, her death was de- New Books chwitz clared a heart attack by Russian au- The story of these remarkable thorities and her body was sent back EUROPE HE 230 WOMEN OF THE women and their life-extending al- to the . T French Resistance sent to Aus- liances is told in A Train in Winter: More than a decade later, how- chwitz in January 1949 were from An Extraordinary Story of Women, ever, a Russian spy suggests that a many walks of life and different ages Friendship, and Resistance in Oc- KGB mole inside the U.S. govern- ranging from schoolgirls to scien- cupied France [New York: Harper- ment might have been involved in tists. They came from different parts Collins] by Caroline Moorehead, a Emily’s death. Todd wants to find of the country human rights journalist, author and out what really happened. He makes and had been trustee of the Index on Censorship. a harrowing trip to Russia and un- strangers to Moorehead is best known for biogra- covers countless secrets as he turns each other but phies of Bertrand Russell and Martha former allies into enemies. they had im- Gellhorn and for Human Cargo: A Doder knows the territory he is portant things Journey Among the Refugees, a book writing about. His dispatches from in common: about refugees in the modem world. Moscow were awarded the Overseas hatred of their A Train in Winter is not an easy Press Club Nazi occupi- read but it tells an important story. Citations for ers and cour- Moorehead draws on interviews Excellence age. with the surviving women and their in 1982 and They re- families; German, French, and Pol- 1989. Al- alized that to ish archives; and documents held by though this survive the inhuman suffering of World War II resistance organiza- is his first a death camp, they had to work to- tions. novel, Dod- gether and they did. Friendship and er is author of several solidarity, however, was not enough GLOBAL to overcome starvation, disease and HE DRAMA OF THE LAST non-fiction cruelty. After 2 1/2 years only 49 T few months of the cold war and books includ- were alive to return to France. Even the consequences of duplicity and ing Shadows and Whispers: Power the survivors found themselves for- betrayal in both Moscow and Wash- Politics Inside the Kremlin from ever changed after their mental and ington are the topics Dusko Doder, a Brezhnev to Gorbachev, and a biog- former Washington Post correspon- raphy of Mikhail Gorbachev, Heretic dent, explores in his first novel, The in the Kremlin. Firebird Affair [e-book from Diver- The Firebird Affair, an e-book, is sion Books]. available on Amazon, Barnes & No- After Emily Martin, the wife of bel and other online outlets. Washington Tribune reporter Todd Coming up... Martin, collapses in a Moscow res- — by Susan Kille

OPC Book Night: Overseas Press Club of America Eating Mud Crabs in 40 West 45 Street Kandahar New York, NY 10036 USA Wednesday, January 4 6 p.m. See page 1 for details

Save the Date: OPC Scholarship Luncheon, February 17 See page 6 for details

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