I cannot allow American correspondents to decide my national agenda for me.

"There's a pretty fair consensus that the main ideas have got to come from the region," he told a group of American correspondents tonight.

He worked there for over three years- longer than any other American correspondent.

By the end of 1971 the number of accredited American correspondents had declined to fewer than 200.

One American correspondent suggested that 'the music department is the war department of the church'.

Certainly this has been true of many American correspondents who have returned from their stays in Moscow to write books.

For a time he was an American correspondent of The Times.

He was also the American correspondent for the Daily News.

He has been called "the dean of American foreign correspondents."

American correspondents then were mostly white, male and chauvinist.