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FICTION · POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

Tom Wicker

Also known as: Paul Connolly

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Thomas Grey Wicker was an American journalist. He was a political reporter and columnist for The New York Times.

By the silver turnip watch that was his only memento of his father, Captain Fargo Hart saw that it was just past eight o'clock in the morning.

— from Unto this hour, 1984

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On the record

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Interview with Mahfud M.D. on his account as chairman of Indonesian Constitutional Court and his thoughts on the role and position of Constitutional Court in Indonesian legal system.

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Shooting star

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Joe McCarthy first became visible to the nation on February 9, 1950, when he delivered a Lincoln Day address to local Republicans in Wheeling, West Virginia. That night he declared, "I have here in my hand a list of 205 [members of the Communist Party] still working and shaping policy in the State Department." Anticommunism was already a cause embraced by the Republican Party as a whole; McCarthy tapped into this current and turned it into a flood. Little more than five years later, after countless hearings and stormy speeches and after incalculable damage to ordinary Americans and the nation itself, McCarthy's Senate colleagues voted 67-22 to censure him for his reckless accusations and fabrications. We know today that not one prosecution resulted from McCarthy's investigations into communists in the U.S. government.--Publisher description.

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A time to die

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In 1971, the inmates of Attica revolted, took hostages, and forced the authorities into four days of desperate negotiation. The rebels demanded and were granted the presence of a group of observers to act as unofficial mediators. Tom Wicker, then the Associate Editor of the New York Times, was one of those summoned. This is his account.

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