I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week covering the police.
In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything.
One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life.
I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad.
Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.
And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early.
When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back.
