34 - Sunday, August 19, 1990 - North Shore News

Philip Till

has covered
everything from
Beirut to Liz’s
birthday

HE DIDN'T receive
vitation to Elizabeth
Taylor’s birthday party so
he did the nest best thing:
he gaie-crashed it. He isa
newsman’s newsman. A
veteran of the journalism
business.

an in-

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

And the stories Philip Till fas
covered range from the serious to
the sensational. They range from
terrorism and war coverage in
Beirut for NBC Radio to inter-
viewing a dog that could sing the
Horst Wessel song for the Na-
tional Enquirer.

These days Till is a long way
from the battle fields of Europe
and the Middle East. For the past
year he has been hosting an
open- -line show on CKNW radio
in Vancouver.

Till has a long and distinguished

career as a news reporter, having

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IN HIS 15 years as a foreign correspondent with the NBC Radio network, CKNW radio open-line
host Philip Till has covered more major international news stories than most reporters will cover in

a lifetime.

entered the journalism business at
the tender age of 15. His first job
was working as a copy boy on

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the Shah af ican, the inumphant
return ot A) -tellah Khomeini, the
Isracli invase cs of south Lebanon,
the U.S, how te crisis in fran. the
Royal wedu of Prince Charles
and Lady le. ua and the U.S.
bombing of ‘ripoli, Libya.

And the there was the time Till
crashed Elizabeth Tavlor's birth-
day party ir Budapest.

“f didn'’y fave a visa to get into
Hungary bu. drove to the
Austro-Hungarian frontier any-
way. The rather stern Hungarian

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