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Show PPff tI(B i 1 :"; ; ! "' A &. t , . - . . , .iHiaV " if--n"n'r n Morley Safer Correspondent Morley Safer is now in his seventh season as co-editor of '60 Minutes,' the CBS News television magazine. In the past year, Safer has reported on a great variety of stories, ranging from the problems of sleeplessness and special effects in the film-making industry, to a report on the decline of Great Britain and a report on criminals and their victims. In 1976 he also conducted newsmaking interviews with First Lady Betty Ford, profiled California Governor Edmund Brown Jr., attorney Melvin Belli, publisher William Loeb and journalist Adela Rogers St. Johns and was anchorman of the news special 'The Second Battle of Britain.' Before joining '60 Minutes,' Safer was chief of the CBS News London Bureau from 1967 to 1970. In that post, he reported on British events, fighting in the Middle East, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, religious strife in Northern Ireland, the war in Vietnam, incursions into Cambodia and the Nigerian civil war. He was expelled by the Nigerian government in early 1970 for reporting on pilferage of Biafran refugee relief supplies. In 1969 Safer held an exclusive interview with a Soviet writer who had defected to the West, which was broadcast as the news special 'The Ordeal of Anatoly Kuznetsov.' In the fall of 1967, he and cameraman John Peters went to mainland China to film 'Morley Safer's Red China Diary.' Before taking the London Bureau post, Safer was head of the CBS News Saigon Bureau in 1965. He spent two tours in Vietnam, for which he won a number of major broadcasting honors for his reporting, including three Overseas Press Club Awards, the Paul White Award, George Foster Peabody Award and the George Polk Memorial Award. Safer was a correspondent and producer with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation before coming to CBS News. He was born in Toronto and graduated from the University of Western Ontario. Safer lives with his wife and young daughter in New York City. J |