And we're not going to understand if the media don't explain it. Ann K. Cooper delivered the 1997 Joe Alex Morris, Jr. Memorial Lecture, named for the Middle East correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and Harvard graduate who was killed in Teheran in 1979. These are excerpts from that speech. In 1986 Cooper opened National Public Radio's Moscow bureau. Her assignments also included the Rwandan refugee crisis in 1994 and other stories in southern Africa.
Rwandan refugees set up camps outside Goma.