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Article: VETERAN REPORTER RESIGNS THOMAS FIXTURE AT WHITE HOUSE.(NEWS)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- May 17, 2000
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Veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas resigned Tuesday from United Press International, ending a UPI tenure that spanned six decades - longer than the lives of President Clinton and most of her press corps colleagues.
The 79-year-old Ms. Thomas announced her resignation a day after UPI was sold to News World Communications Inc., the parent firm of The Washington Times. News World Communications was founded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, leader of the Unification Church.
Ms. Thomas did not say why she quit UPI, which hired her as a $24-a-week radio script writer during World War II.
''I have no plans to join the new UPI,'' she said in a ...