 Philip Shabecoff

Philip Shabecoff was a reporter for "The New York Times" from 1959 to 1991, who has since specialized in writing about environmental issues.He was posted as a foreign correspondent in West Germany from 1964–1968, with responsibilities for covering East and West Germany, Scandinavia, and Czechoslovakia; then posted to Tokyo, from 1968–1970, with responsibilities for covering Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand.