Hughes’ journalism career from paperboy to Pulitzer Prize-winner covers Africa’s transition from European colonialism to self-rule, South Africa’s apartheid, the Vietnam war, Indonesia’s 1965 coup, and an insider’s look at the people and operations of The Christian Science Monitor between 1955 – 1980. He would later direct Voice of America, serve as State Department Spokesman for George Shultz, and Director of Communications at the U.N.
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