NEW YORK — Barry Kramer, who covered the Vietnam War for The Associated Press and went on to a 30-year career at The Wall Street Journal reporting from Asia and rising to deputy foreign editor, has died. Kramer’s globe-trotting career took him from Saigon’s black market during the Vietnam War to the slums of India, the Philippines under dictator Ferdinand Marcos, and the frontiers of science and medicine. With the Vietnam War heating up, he joined the Army Reserves, and was sent to learn Chinese for a year at the Defence Language Institute in Monterey, California. He eventually took a job with The Wall Street Journal writing about science and medicine, his first interest, for six years. Most of the time, Kramer wrote news features and covered general news, including the border war between China and Vietnam in February 1979.

Source: National Post February 26, 2019 02:15 UTC