Special Foreign Correspondent, The Times: Vietnam, 1967-68; Egypt, 1967; Southeast Asia, 1968-74

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Series 9

Content Summary:

Whilst employed with The Times, Harris was engaged on a number of occasions to act as a special correspondent to report on regional events. He was assigned the post of the paper's special war correspondent in Vietnam between 1967 and 1968 and reported from Egypt during the six day war in 1967. As special correspondent in Southeast Asia, he provided coverage from Thailand and New Zealand and from Indonesia in 1968, 1973-74. In 1968 Harris was the first foreign journalist allowed into Irian Jaya.

Immediate source of acquisition:

In December 1994 the National Library of Australia purchased the papers of Stewart Harris, for more than twenty years Foreign Correspondent in Australia for The Times newspaper.

Names:

Stewart Harris

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