e/Colin Smith (journalist)

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has gloss	eng: Colin Smith is a British foreign-affairs journalist and author. He was born in Birmingham, England in 1944. For 26 years he worked for The Observer newspaper, of which he was an Assistant Editor, mainly reporting on wars and trouble spots from all over the world starting in 1971 with the Bengali uprising in what was then East Pakistan. He visited Cambodia and Vietnam during the closing stages of American withdrawal and remained in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh) after Vietnamese communist forces entered the city. Later he mainly covered the Middle East, based first in Nicosia, then Cairo and Jersusalem and spending a considerable amount of time (1975–84) in Lebanon. He reported on the first Gulf War, entering Kuwait City with the US Marines, the siege of Sarajevo, and the massacres in Rawanda. He has twice been named International Reporter of the Year in the British press awards and once runner up.
lexicalization	eng: Colin Smith
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