Associated Press correspondent Roland Prinz, who spent decades covering Europe, dies at age 85 – Winnipeg Free Press
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Roland Prinz, who was born as armies began marching across central Europe then spent nearly four decades covering the Cold War and the fall of communism for The Associated Press, has died. Prinz was a linchpin of the AP’s coverage of the turmoil that accompanied the end of the Cold War, starting with the rise of Solidarity in Poland, stretching through the Velvet Revolution in the Czech Republic, the fall of the Berlin Wall and finally the breakup of Yugoslavia. Throughout his career, Prinz was a gentlemanly presence in the news service’s Vienna bureau, helping newcomers naviga...
A former Associated Press correspondent who spent four decades covering the Cold War and the fall of communism has died at age 85.
A former Associated Press correspondent who spent four decades covering the Cold War and the fall of communism has died at age 85
A former Associated Press correspondent who spent four decades covering the Cold War and the fall of communism has died at age 85.