“Look up ‘Kate Webb’,” he said about his former colleague who had once given him some sound career advice.
Kate, a reporter from New Zealand with a love for smoking and drinking, had travelled to Cambodia to take over as the UPI’s bureau chief there. She was captured by the North Vietnamese troops in 1971 and “disappeared” for 23 days as she was held in captivity with five others. Many presumed she was dead and an obituary was placed in the New York Times. Kate had endured marches, interrogations, and malaria, but was otherwise treated humanely by the Viet Cong.
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