Mr. Lawson floated a trial balloon last month in a not-for-attribution briefing with 10 British correspondents who cover him regularly.

The British correspondent was a drunk, but beneath the alcoholic haze was a deep and abiding hatred of the Soviet regime.

Her psychologically complex protagonist, a British foreign correspondent named Connie Burns, is no plucky heroine.

Richard Lloyd Parry (born 1969) is a British foreign correspondent and writer.

British correspondents, she said, "didn't enlist in the war effort" - as she said too many American reporters did.

Mr. Chirac prepared for the trip by giving a series of deft interviews to British correspondents in Paris.

One student was reportedly lynched, and according to a British correspondent, the campus was left looking like 'a combat zone.'

"It is extraordinary what strides the mania for these machines is making here," a British correspondent in Paris wrote.

The night before, the last of the British and French correspondents and nonofficial civilians had hurriedly left for the nearest frontier.

In 1984, Abdolrashidi returned to London as the British and European correspondent.