biography
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Higgins, Marguerite
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| female
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| lived:
| (1920–66)
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| biography:
| Journalist, born in Hong Kong, China. An intrepid and resourceful war correspondent, she covered the Seventh Army in Europe during 1944 and won a Pulitzer Prize for her Korean War coverage. Later a correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, she contracted a fatal tropical disease while visiting Southeast Asia in 1965. Her Our Vietnam Nightmare (1965) criticized the US role in the fall of the Diem regime. |
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