Talk:Bill Stewart (journalist)
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Quote from article: In a strange diplomatic twist, the United States government refused to help ABC and Stewart's family bring Stewart's body back to the United States; eventually, the German government stepped in and made the arrangements.
- Where is the source for this comment? I've worked in two embassies and retrieval of the bodies of American citizens is one of the functions of posted State Department officials. Only in physically dangerous locations do embassy officials not attempt recovery or at least respond to family inquiries.Virgil61 09:25, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
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- I couldn't find anything in contemporary newspapers about the US refusing to help return his body. The source might be this web page http://www.correspondences.org/archives/000238.html which seems to be a blog of a fellow ABC reporter, who remembered it this way. But without a more solid source, I think the statement should be removed. Ydorb 18:56, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
The murderer was not caught "years later." President Somoza ordered a court-martial, but before it could happen, the soldier was himself killed in battle.
Removed the notation of the soldier being part of the US-led, US-backed gov't as this seems like a heavy handed dose of editorializing. Also, done before I signed in. Shawn 11:08, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
- The comment at the end about the recovery of the body appears to be completely unverifiable. In fact the only thing I can come up with is a 2003 online article by someone named Bob Sirkin who claims to have been a collegue of Stewart and states that they had to enlist the help of the Germans--but he even qualifies that remark with "as I recall."
- It's not even a valid web page any longer--this is from the Google cached version. Seriously this portion needs to be deleted as it is evidently baseless. Going to watch it and remove if the issue isn't addressed.72.0.175.144 (talk) 23:03, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] dramatic surge
"Before the shooting, Nicaragua had been a controversial subject. Most Republicans argued Somoza and his regime must be kept in power as a bulwark against Communism. The dramatic surge in public anger following Stewart's murder made that position untenable. Support for Somoza was withdrawn and he was toppled less than a month later on July 19." This looks like an editorial comment. besides, wasn't the US government in 1979 a Democratic government under Jimmy Carter? The paragraph basically says that the shooting meant that republicans had to change their tune, but they were not in power in July 1979. Zombiflava 19:03, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
