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{"value"=>"Durdin, Tillman"}
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{"value"=>"<p>(Chief Correspondent in Southeast Asia) Corresponence regarding assignments. Of interest: Assignment to Southeast Asia including Indo-China, Thailand, Burma, Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia (1950). Background correspondence on Vietnam (1950s). Transfer to City Staff (1956). Temporary assignment to North Africa with base in Algiers. Return to Southeast Asia with base in Hong Kong. Coverage of China from Hong Kong. Correspondence about coordination of coverage of Southeast Asia between the correspondents in the area. Temporary assignment to India (1959). Transfer from Hong Kong to the Editorial Board (1961). After a leave of absence to work for the Council on Foreign Relations (1963-1964) Durdin returned to The Times on the Australia-New Zealand South Pacific assignment. Transfer from Australia to Hong Kong 1967. Visa to Communist China granted to Durdin (1971). (He was the first regular correspondent for an American newspaper to enter China since the 1950s). Biographical sketches; readers mail. Occasional correspondence from Mrs. Durdin. Photographs.</p>"}
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{"type"=>"did", "value"=>" see also: Australia, 1956-1967; Cambodia, 1965-1968; China, 1948-1979 (A); East-West Center, 1970-1971; Hong Kong Bureau, 1951-1976; SEATO Conference, 1954-1955; Vietnam stringers, 1952-1971 "}
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