Clay Collins: That's The Monitor's Ned Temko, a veteran foreign correspondent, analyst of global affairs, and writer of the Monitor's " Patterns" column.
A few months after that, the BBC foreign correspondent, Allan Little, writes that he watched as a procession of 40,000 people emerged from a nearby forest.
Now I'd like to begin by saying that I have on occasions used an interpreter myself, as a foreign correspondent, so I am full of admiration for what you do.