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In one sense, one couldn't ask for more diversity at the daily press briefings at the United States Central Command at Doha, Qatar. One moment, the author was sitting between journalists from Japan and Finland. A few minutes later, he was talking to colleagues from France, England, Germany, Holland, Mexico, Korea, Canada or from one of 30 countries represented in Doha. But when Army Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, an African-American, looked into the audience to call on reporters last week, the author was only one who shared his racial heritage. The author feels that it is not a tribute to him or his news organization—it's an indictment of the American news media.

Reports on a fact finding mission by a delegation of Black newspaper executives and writers lead by National Newspaper Publishers Association president Dorothy Leavell to Nigeria, on the invitation of the Nigerian Foreign Minister Tom Ikimi. Purpose of the visit; Reports on Nigeria by the white press.