Dusko doder biography of nancy
In The Inconvenient Journalist, Doder, writing with his spouse and journalistic partner Louise Branson, describes how on.
Doder, who was born in Yugoslavia, was regarded as one of the best American reporters in Moscow and a man who sometimes learned about major..
As Moscow bureau chief for The Washington Post in the early 1980s, Dusko Doder had several advantages stemming from his upbringing in Yugoslavia: fluent idiomatic Russian and an intuitive understanding of the signs of change within a totalitarian system.
He sensed something was amiss on a February night in 1984, when state radio canceled a jazz program and broadcast somber classical music. He noticed also that the lights at the Defense Ministry and the Soviet secret police, the KGB, were blazing at hours when their offices were often mostly dark.
With deadline pressing, Post colleagues in Washington scrambled to get a response or more details from U.S. officials. The State Department and others dismissed Mr. Doder’s reporting as overblown.
Smithsonian NPG exhibition: the nation's only complete collection of presidential portraits outside the White House.One U.S. Embassy diplomat in Moscow replied to State that Mr. Doder was probably “on pot,” according to Post accounts.
Mr. Doder’s story ran on Page 28 on Feb. 10, 1984, with added caveats from U.S. authorities. That same day, the Kremli