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• In November 1969 he interviewed the exiled King of Buganda, Mutesa II, hours before death in his London flat from alcohol poisoning. The official cause was suicide but some suspected assassination. he told the police the following day that the king, a fellow-graduate of Magdalene College, Cambridge, had been sober and in good spirits, but this line of enquiry was not pursued.
• He travelled back from Paris to Tehran with the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini on 1 February 1979, a return that heralded the Iranian Revolution, as millions lined the streets of the capital.
• In 1989 he avoided bullets at the Beijing Tiananmen Square massacre.
• He reported the fall of Ceauşescu regime in Bucharest later that year.
• He spent the early part of the 1991 Gulf War in Baghdad, before being expelled by the authorities.