POST REPORTER DAVID HOFFMAN WINS 2 AWARDS

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• Publication Date: April 28, 1985
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WASHINGTON POST
28 April 1y85
Post Reporter David Hoffman
By Eleanor Randolph
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David Hoffman, a White House ~
correspondent for The Washington
Post since 1982, was named winner
of two awards last night at the
White House Correspondents As-
sociation annual dinner.
Hoffman won the Merriman
Smith Memorial Award. ?iven fora .
story written on deadline, for an
article written Sept. 27 when Pres-
ident Reagan blamed a terrorist
attack on the U.S. Embassy annex
in Beirut .on the "near destruction"
of U.S. intelli ence Burin the Car-
ter administration. he remark set
off a furor among Democrats, and
Reagan later called former presi-
dent Jimmy Carter to explain that
he had not meant to blame Carter
or his administration for the terror-
ist attack, in which two Americans
were killed.
Reagan's comment, which was
not part of the prepared text, was
made during aquestion-and-answer
period after a speech in Bowling
Green, Ohio.
Hoffman, a specialist in economic
reporting before he began covering
the White House, also won the Aldo
Beckman Memorial Award for a
series of budget-related stories
from Nov. 13 to Dec. 11, 1984.
Other White House correspon-
dents awards included the Raymond
Clapper Memorial Award to Mark J:
Thompson of the Fort Worth Star-
Telegram.
Thompson wrote a series on a
design flaw in Bell helicopters that
resulted in the deaths of almost 250
U.S. servicemen.
The series, which created a furor
in Fort Worth where Bell is the sec-
ond largest employer, also won
Thompson the Pulitzer prize for
public service last week.
David Rogers of The Wall Street
Journal also won two prizes. Rog-`
ers, who covers Capitol Hill for the
Journal, and Brooks Jackson won
the Worth Bingham Memorial Prize
for their article on "Money and -Pol-
itics."
Second place winners of the
Bingham award were Chris Collins
and John Hanchette of Gannett
News Service for theiz series "The
Vaccine Machine."
Rogers also won a second place
Clapper award ~r his covera a of
Congress, including is Baking
story on mvo vement in the
muun? of harbors in Nicara?ua.
Honorable mention for the Clap-
per award went to Fred Hiatt _of _
The Washington Post. for his cov-
erage of the Pentagon.
The Worth Bingham awards are
presented in memory _of Robert
Worth Bingham, the publisher ?of.
The Louisville Courier Journal' who
died in 1967. Beckman was a c~r-
respondent and bureau chief for the
Chicago Tribune.
Clapper was aScripps-Howaazd
correspondent who died in a _1944
plane crash while serving as a war
reporter in the Pacific.
Merriman Smith, who was White
House correspondent for UPI, was
renowned as the wire service re-
porter who first filed on the shoot-
ing of President John F. Kennedy. ?
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