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John Pomfret
 
Date of birth: 1667
Date of death: 1702
Country Of Origin: England
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" A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life. "

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" All the war crimes in the world wouldn't have mattered a hill of beans if Britain, France, the United States, and Germany weren't really having a serious tussle over what to do in Bosnia. That, I think, is a sad testimony. "

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" And the AP sent me to China very quickly. "

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" And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early. "

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" And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever. "

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" But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives to tell you what they saw, even though they have no dog in the fight. "

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" But the difference is that in an overseas assignment there is an emphasis on the facts but there's also a much greater emphasis on interpretation. "

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" For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army, because they are the ones that changed fundamentally the map of Bosnia, not the Bosnian army. "

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" Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to. "

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" I grew up in New York City in the late '70s, at a time when U.S. - China relations were something that was on the front page of The New York Times on a regular basis. "

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" I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions. "

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" I like to be in a place where I am in some danger and doing work like this definitely puts me in those types of positions. "

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" I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect the fact that there are a lot of shared values in addition to those differences. "

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" I think that I'm equipped to write about it and to broadcast it to my readers, to convey the information to the general public. "

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" I think that's the main threat in Bosnia and Rwanda and Zaire. There doesn't seem to be much willingness to engage these problems unless they directly affect national security interests. "

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