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                    [Title] => Kidnapping of Pinoy rips Afghan veil open
                    [Summary] => DOT ON THE MAP: The late Manila Times editor Jose Luna Castro would remind his cub reporters in the 1960s not to indulge in so-called "Afghanistanism."


I have always suspected that JoeLuna picked up that term in Syracuse U in upstate New York where he earned his Masters in journalism. Afghanistanism was the term used then in US newsrooms for copy that was dull and irrelevant to American readers.


                    [DatePublished] => 2004-10-31 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr.
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Kidnapping of Pinoy rips Afghan veil open

By POSTSCRIPT | By Federico D. Pascual Jr. | October 31, 2004 - 12:00am

DOT ON THE MAP: The late Manila Times editor Jose Luna Castro would remind his cub reporters in the 1960s not to indulge in so-called "Afghanistanism." I have always suspected that JoeLuna picked up that...

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