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He was born in Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

, Illinois

Illinois

Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

. He graduated from the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

at age 18 and began his journalism career with the Chicago City News Service. He later joined the Chicago Daily News
Chicago Daily News
The Chicago Daily News was an afternoon daily newspaper published between 1876 and 1978 in Chicago, Illinois.-History:The Daily News was founded by Melville E. Stone, Percy Meggy, and William Dougherty in 1875 and began publishing early the next year...

.

Reed was a roving editor with Reader's Digest
Reader's Digest
Reader's Digest is a general interest family magazine, published ten times annually. Formerly based in Chappaqua, New York, its headquarters is now in New York City. It was founded in 1922, by DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell Wallace...

who reported from more than 100 countries and covered more than a dozen wars, including wars in Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

, Angola

Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...

, Nicaragua

Nicaragua

Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean...

, Cambodia

Cambodia

Cambodia , officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia...

, and many conflicts elsewhere in the world. Reed learned Swahili

Swahili language

Swahili or Kiswahili is a Bantu language spoken by various ethnic groups that inhabit several large stretches of the Mozambique Channel coastline from northern Kenya to northern Mozambique, including the Comoro Islands. It is also spoken by ethnic minority groups in Somalia...

during a two year fellowship from the Institute of Current World Affairshttp://www.icwa.org/_Articles.asp?LastName=reed&Keyword=&Country=&StartYR=1926&EndYR=2007&Submit=Submit to Kenya

Kenya

Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...

during the Mau Mau insurgency in the 1950s. In the late 1950s, he was a reporter for the U.S. News and World Report. He joined the Reader's Digest
Reader's Digest
Reader's Digest is a general interest family magazine, published ten times annually. Formerly based in Chappaqua, New York, its headquarters is now in New York City. It was founded in 1922, by DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell Wallace...

in the early 1960s and worked there for the remainder of his lifetime. He interviewed several United States presidents, including then president Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...

at the White House

White House

The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical...

in 1971: http://www.nixon.archives.gov/forresearchers/find/av/audio/main_finding_aid.php. He was the author of 111 Days in Stanleyville, Harper & Row, NY, 1965 and Up Front in Vietnam, Funk & Wagnalls, NY, 1967. 111 Days in Stanleyville was reprinted as Save The Hostages, Bantam Books, NY, 1988.

Reed wrote 111 Days in Stanleyville after spending more than four years in Africa during seven trips there on writing assignments. He took a two-month overland trip across the continent, and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro

Mount Kilimanjaro

Kilimanjaro, with its three volcanic cones, Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira, is a dormant volcano in Kilimanjaro National Park, Tanzania and the highest mountain in Africa at above sea level .-Geology:...

. In 1960 he covered the independence push in Congo

Congo Crisis

The Congo Crisis was a period of turmoil in the First Republic of the Congo that began with national independence from Belgium and ended with the seizing of power by Joseph Mobutu...

as a staff writer for the U.S. News and World Report magazine.

Reed wrote Up Front in Vietnam after spending months in Vietnam

Vietnam

during the Vietnam War

Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...

. He travelled across Vietnam

Vietnam

, criss-crossing back and forth in C-130 cargo planes, helicopters, trucks and jeeps. In the book, Reed wrote a series of sketches about what it was like to be up front with the soldiers in the combat zone in Vietnam

Vietnam

.

In 1988, Reed received the Republic of China

Republic of China

The Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan , is a unitary sovereign state located in East Asia. Originally based in mainland China, the Republic of China currently governs the island of Taiwan , which forms over 99% of its current territory, as well as Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor...

's International Communications Service award.

Reed was inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame posthumously in 1992. http://s88682243.onlinehome.us/html/hall_of_fame.html.

Selection of Reader’s Digest Articles by David E. Reed

North America§ Sunken Treasure!, 12/1990
§ Don Williams, An American Worker’s Comeback, 04/1986
§ Chicago

Chicago

, Rowdy Crossroads of America, 1986: Int’l
§ Robots March on U.S; Industry, 04/1985
§ Of Tender Heart and Generous Spirit,” 03/1985
§ Carlos Perez: “Hero of the ‘80’s,” 09/1984
§ The Yukon

Yukon

Yukon is the westernmost and smallest of Canada's three federal territories. It was named after the Yukon River. The word Yukon means "Great River" in Gwich’in....

: River of the Midnight Sun, 07/1984
§ Detroit Faces the Rising Sun: A New Day Dawns for the Motor City, 09/1983
§ Jeanne Kirkpatrick: America’s “Undiplomatic” Ambassador, 08/1982
§ Search for the Missing Tomcat, 03/1977
§ The Ohio Valley—America’s Newest Industrial Empire, 12/1963

Latin America§ “Good Morning, Cuba

Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

”, 10/1988
§ High Stakes in Nicaragua

Nicaragua

, 09/1987
§ Can This Man Save the Panama Canal

Panama Canal

The Panama Canal is a ship canal in Panama that joins the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and is a key conduit for international maritime trade. Built from 1904 to 1914, the canal has seen annual traffic rise from about 1,000 ships early on to 14,702 vessels measuring a total of 309.6...

?, 01/1987
§ El Salvador

El Salvador

El Salvador or simply Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. The country's capital city and largest city is San Salvador; Santa Ana and San Miguel are also important cultural and commercial centers in the country and in all of Central America...

: Back from the Brink, 05/1985
§ High Stakes in Central America

Central America

Central America is the central geographic region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast. When considered part of the unified continental model, it is considered a subcontinent...

, 08/1983
§ Central America

Central America

’s Beacon of Hope, 12/1981
§ Haiti

Haiti

Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...

: A Nation in Agony, 10/1981
§ Communism’s Bold Grab for Central America

Central America

, 12/1980
§ Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

’s Appalling Reign of Terror, 06/1980
§ The Man Who Defied Castro, 04/1980
§ Nicaragua

Nicaragua

’s Somoza: Dictator at Bay, 01/1979
§ Should We Give Up the Panama Canal

Panama Canal

? 05/1976
§ The Legendary Career of Juan Peron

Juan Perón

Juan Domingo Perón was an Argentine military officer, and politician. Perón was three times elected as President of Argentina though he only managed to serve one full term, after serving in several government positions, including the Secretary of Labor and the Vice Presidency...

, 1975: Int’l
§ Palenque

Palenque

Palenque was a Maya city state in southern Mexico that flourished in the 7th century. The Palenque ruins date back to 100 BC to its fall around 800 AD...

: Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

’s Mysterious Lost City, 1974: Int’l
§ The Night Managua

Managua

Managua is the capital city of Nicaragua as well as the department and municipality by the same name. It is the largest city in Nicaragua in terms of population and geographic size. Located on the southwestern shore of Lake Xolotlán or Lake Managua, the city was declared the national capital in...

Died, 05/1973
§ Taps for Tupamaros

Tupamaros

Tupamaros, also known as the MLN-T , was an urban guerrilla organization in Uruguay in the 1960s and 1970s. The MLN-T is inextricably linked to its most important leader, Raúl Sendic, and his brand of social politics...

, 11/1972
§ The Last Days of Che Guevara

Che Guevara

Ernesto "Che" Guevara , commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist...

, 04/1968
§ Colossus of Rivers: The Amazon

Amazon River

The Amazon of South America is the second longest river in the world and by far the largest by waterflow with an average discharge greater than the next seven largest rivers combined...

, 09/1963
§ Cuba

Cuba

Revisited, 03/1961

Asia§
The Search for Billy, Continued, 02/1990
§ South Korea

South Korea

The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

: Going for the Gold, 09/1988
§ Murder at 37,000 Feet, 05/1988
§ Kidnapped by a Beloved Leader Comrade, 03/1987
§ Asia’s Four Little Dragons, 09/1986
§ Search for Billy, 06/1986
§ Exclusive Interview with President Chiang Ching-Kuo

Chiang Ching-kuo

Chiang Ching-kuo , Kuomintang politician and leader, was the son of President Chiang Kai-shek and held numerous posts in the government of the Republic of China...

, 1986: Int’l
§ North Korea

North Korea

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , , is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea...

’s Secret Invasion Tunnels, 03/1980
§ Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

: Jewel of Prosperity, 11/1979
§ The Realities of Recognizing China

China

Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

: An Editorial, 02/1979
§ South Korea

South Korea

and Its Strongmen, 09/1978
§ Singapore

Singapore

: Asia’s Big New Success Story, 1978: Int’l
§ Mission: Mine Haiphong

Haiphong

, also Haiphong, is the third most populous city in Vietnam. The name means, "coastal defence".-History:Hai Phong was originally founded by Lê Chân, the female general of a Vietnamese revolution against the Chinese led by the Trưng Sisters in the year 43 C.E.The area which is now known as Duong...

!, 02/1973
§ The Agony of East Pakistan

East Pakistan

East Pakistan was a provincial state of Pakistan established in 14 August 1947. The provincial state existed until its declaration of independence on 26 March 1971 as the independent nation of Bangladesh. Pakistan recognized the new nation on 16 December 1971. East Pakistan was created from Bengal...

, by D. Reed & John E. Franzier, 11/1971
§ Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

Turns it Wheels, 09/1970
§ Vietnamization: Can it Succeed?, 04/1970
§ Countdown on Okinawa, 11/1969
§ Ordeal at the Embassy, 09/1968
§ Korea

Korea

Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...

: The War That Never Ends, by, 06/1968
§ Hill 488: A Fight to Remember, by, 05/1968
§ Stand Firm in Vietnam

Vietnam

!, 01/1968
§ Up Front in Vietnam

Vietnam

, 09/1967
§ Our “Limited” War in the South China Sea, 04/1967
§ Tunku Abdul Rahman’s Malaysian Miracle, 02/1967
§ How Firmness in Vietnam

Vietnam

is Paying Off, 04/1966
§ The Man for the Job in Vietnam

Vietnam

, by D. Reed & John G. Hubbell, 01/1966
§ We Must Stop Red China—Now!, 02/1965

Africa
§ Can Mandela and de Kerk Save South Africa?, 09/1990
§ Do South African Sanctions Make Sense?, 02/1989
§ South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

, Glimmers of Hope?, 08/1987
§ Can this Man Save Africa?: 05/1987
§ South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

: Will White Rule End?, 02/1986
§ South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

’s Champion of Nonviolence, 01/1983
§ Africa’s Wildlife: Countdown to Zero, 07/1982
§ Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

’s Ruthless Reach into Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

: 11/1977
§ Time Runs Out for South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

, 02/1977
§ The Lingering Tragedy of Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...

, 09/1976
§ Angola

Angola

’s Made in Moscow War, 06/1976
§ The Rocky Road to Freedom, 01/1973
§ The Tyrant Everybody Cultivates, 08/1972
§ Comeback in the Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a state located in Central Africa. It is the second largest country in Africa by area and the eleventh largest in the world...

, 04/1971
§ A Nation is Dying!, 03/1969
§ White vs. Black in Rhodesia

Rhodesia

Rhodesia , officially the Republic of Rhodesia from 1970, was an unrecognised state located in southern Africa that existed between 1965 and 1979 following its Unilateral Declaration of Independence from the United Kingdom on 11 November 1965...

, 10/1966
§ Ghana

Ghana

Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...

: Communism’s Major Defeat in Africa, 06/1966
§ The Stanleyville Massacre, 09/1965
§ Rhino!, 07/1965
§ Ivory Coast—Africa’s Big Success Story, 01/1965
§ Express to the Mountains of the Moon, 09/1964
§ Ghana

Ghana

: Communism’s New Foothold In Africa, 07/1964
§ The Battle Against Sleeping Sickness, 07/1963
§ Nigeria

Nigeria

Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

: Black Africa’s Brightest Hope, 03/1963
§ Zanzibar

Zanzibar

Zanzibar ,Persian: زنگبار, from suffix bār: "coast" and Zangi: "bruin" ; is a semi-autonomous part of Tanzania, in East Africa. It comprises the Zanzibar Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of the mainland, and consists of numerous small islands and two large ones: Unguja , and Pemba...

: Laziest Place on Earth, 11/1962
§ Africa’s River of Mystery, 09/1962
§ Jomo Kenyatta

Jomo Kenyatta

Jomo Kenyattapron.] served as the first Prime Minister and President of Kenya. He is considered the founding father of the Kenyan nation....

: Africa’s Man of Mystery, 12/1961

Middle East
§ Should We Trust Yasir Arafat?, 09/1989
§ Turmoil in the Holy Land, 11/1988
§ The Unholy War Between Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

and Iraq

Iraq

Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

, 08/1984
§ Bethlehem’s Man in the Middle, 02/1984
§ Jordan

Jordan

Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...

’s Indestructible King Hussein, 08/1981
§ Qaddafi, Libya

Libya

Libya is an African country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....

’s Lord of Terror, 06/1981
§ Russia’s Real Target: The Middle East Oil Fields, 07/1980
§ Israel’s Menachem Begin

Menachem Begin

' was a politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of the State of Israel. Before independence, he was the leader of the Zionist militant group Irgun, the Revisionist breakaway from the larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah. He proclaimed a revolt, on 1 February 1944,...

; Key to Middle East Peace, 04/1978
§ The Arch-Terrorist Who Went Scot-Free, 09/1977
§ Syria

Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....

’s Assad: Pivotal New Force in the Middle East, 08/1976
§ Jerusalem—Too Holy for its Own Good, 03/1975
§ The Man Who Changed Middle Eastern History, 06/1974
§ Qaddafi of Libya

Libya

: The Big Question Mark in Oil, 11/1973
§ Golda Meir

Golda Meir

Golda Meir ; May 3, 1898 – December 8, 1978) was a teacher, kibbutznik and politician who became the fourth Prime Minister of the State of Israel....

: Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

’s Tough Grandmother-Prime Minister, 07/1971
§ The Fedayeen—Israel’s Fanatic Foe, 10/1970
§ Bourguiba: Wise Voice in the Arab World, 06/1969

Europe
§ Maggie Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990...

: “She’s All Backbone,” 11/1987
§ Terror in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

: The American Connection, 04/1983
§ Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

’s Agony Without End, 01/1982
§ East Germany’s Sister Superspook, 12/1980
§ First and Last of the Sports Cars, 1980: Int’l
§ The Professionals—Britain

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

’s New Army, 1980: Int’l
§ What End to Ulster

Ulster

Ulster is one of the four provinces of Ireland, located in the north of the island. In ancient Ireland, it was one of the fifths ruled by a "king of over-kings" . Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, the ancient kingdoms were shired into a number of counties for administrative and judicial...

’s Agony, 1979: Int’l
§ A King’s Struggle for Democracy, 05/1979
§ The Man Who Restored Democracy to Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

, 05/1978
§ Britain Defends the Admiral’s Cup, 1977:Int’l
§ East Germany: People for Sale, 10/1976
§ Cyprus

Cyprus

Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

: Tiny Island, Big Uproar, 12/1975
§ What’s Happening to Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

? 10/1975
§ Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

—the Endless War, 07/1975
§ Front Line Ulster

Ulster

, 1975: Int’l
§ Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

and its View of the World, 1975: Int’l
§ Spain

Spain

Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

After Franco—What Will Happen?, 01/1975
§ East Germany Comes in From the Cold, 03/1974
§ Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....

: Time Bomb in Europe, 04/1973
§ Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

: Outcast of Europe, 07/1972
§ Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

’s Bloody Impasse, 01/1972

Early Life & Family

David Reed

David Reed may refer to:* David A. Reed , U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, 1923–1935* David Reed , British Labour Party Member of Parliament, 1970–1974* Dave L. Reed , member of the Pennsylvania State House...

, son of Frank and Helen Reed, was born in 1927 and grew up in Chicago

Chicago

, Illinois

Illinois

. His father was a successful Chicago real estate broker. His grandfather, Thomas A. Reed, had migrated to Chicago from central Pennsylvania and worked at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, also known as the “Chicago World’s Fair.” He started a successful plastering and construction company at the Chicago World's Fair

Chicago World's Fair

Chicago World's Fair may refer to:*World's Columbian Exposition of 1893*Century of Progress Exposition of 1933...

, now known as the Reed Illinois Corporation, http://www.reedcorp.com/profile/index.htm which still exists in Chicago to the present day.

One of Reed’s 2nd great grandfathers: James Pettit (1777-1849), and his son Eber M. Pettit (1802-1885), operated a station on the Underground Railroad

Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. The term is also applied to the abolitionists,...

in New York state to assist escaping slaves from the South. Eber M. Pettit wrote “Sketches in the History of the Underground Railroad,” in 1879, which was reprinted in 1999. http://www.buffalobooks.com/underground.html Jonathan Pettit (1752-1833), Reed's 3rd great-grandfather, served as a Captain in the American Revolution in New York state. Reed was also related to the Adams presidential family.

David Reed was married to Marilyn "Mari" Mehoke-Chevalier, then of New York City, from 1961-1977, and had three children. He was married to Audrey Hamilton of Johannesburg, South Africa in the late 1970s. He married Irene Whitaker, then of Maryland, in 1988.

David Reed was an avid sailor. At different times while travelling the globe, he was based in New York, Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, and Virginia.

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