Sol Witner Sanders (1926February 17, 2022) was an American journalist specializing in Asia with more than twenty-five years in the region. He was a former correspondent for ''

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'', '' U.S. News & World Report'' and United Press International. He traveled extensively in Mexico during the 1950s and was a correspondent in Vietnam in the 1960s. In 1967–1968, Sanders held the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship at the

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. Until his death, he continued to write weekly columns for World Tribune.com and East-Asia-Intel.com. In latter years, where he was a scholar at the

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Accomplishments

Sanders was born in Atlanta and attended public schools in North Carolina and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He left college to enlist in the United States Foreign Service and served as an ambulance driver with the British Central Mediterranean Forces before transferring to the India-Burma theatre. He ultimately earned a bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Missouri, attended the Far East Institute at Columbia University and Sorbonne University in Paris. He spoke English, French and Spanish and some German and Japanese. He was a Fellow at the

; held numerous part-time consultancies: The Ford Foundation, The

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; senior adviser, Info Plus, Inc., a Tokyo-based Japanese consulting firm; visiting professor, The

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at Tufts University, adjunct professor of journalism,

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, Consultant, The East–West Center, Honolulu; adjunct professor of journalism, Florida Atlantic University; contract research/writing, Booz Allen Hamilton, for Office of Net Assessment, Department of Defense, The Pentagon. He was deputy foreign editor for ''Business Week'' (1953). He was Asian Editor for ''McGraw-Hill World News'' (1957–1961) and editor for ''U.S. News & World Report'' (1961–1970), reporting on the Vietnam War. He wrote articles for the Research Institute of America Report (1973–1977), ''Business Week'' magazine (1977–1986) and the ''Washington Times'' (1987–2019) and was a founding member of Vietnam Veterans for Factual History. He maintained a website where he continued to post articles about world affairs until his retirement in 2019.

List of Published Books

* ''A Sense of Asia'' (1969) * ''Arc of Free Asia: a Look into the 1970s at U.S. Problems and Responsibilities'' (1969) * ''Honda: The Man and His Machines'' (1975) * ''Costa Rican Laboratory'' (1986) * ''Mexico: Chaos on Our Doorstep'' (1989) * ''Living off the West: Gorbachev's Secret Agenda and Why it Will Fail'' (1990) * ''U.S. role in the Asian century: a Panel of Experts Looks at National Interest in the New Environment'' (1997) * ''Mitsubishi Electric: The Challenge of Globalization'' (1998) * ''People! Vignettes Gathered Along The Way Through A Long Life'' (2015)

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External links

Review of ''Mexico: Chaos on Our Doorstep'' from ''New York Times'', written by Alan Riding, Dec. 7, 1986.

Facebook entry for Sol W. Sanders.

Mini-biography on Slate.com.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sanders, Sol 1926 births 2022 deaths American male journalists American war correspondents University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni University of Missouri alumni Columbia University alumni University of Paris alumni American expatriates in France People from Atlanta

Accomplishments

List of Published Books

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