The World - News from April 25, 1985
The International Committee of the Red Cross pledged to intensify efforts to safeguard journalists covering armed conflicts. At the close of a two-day Red Cross seminar in Switzerland, Vice President Maurice Aubert said more than 300 members of the press were killed between 1950 and 1984 while covering international or internal conflicts. A Latin American delegate said that in Argentina alone, more than 100 members of the media disappeared during the military dictatorship.
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