Although Nick B. Williams Jr. would forge a successful career as an editor and foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, had first to overcome the "junior" at the end of his name.
I 'joined the newspaper in late 1960, when his father, Nick B. Mr. Williams was editor of the Times, and prestige in this one.
"When Nick Junior has been added to the template, a number of people most cynical - he said. He is the son of the editor What the heck will" It is hoped that if 20 minutes, they discovered it was a great editor and an extraordinary journalist, "George Cotliar, a former executive editor of The Times said Wednesday.
Williams, who was a foreign correspondent for the Times on Southeast Asia and the Middle East in 1980 and 1990, died Wednesday in a house in Gainesville, Texas, from complications of care fromAlzheimer disease, said his daughter Nan. He was 75.
After starting the Metro copy desk at The Times, Williams became an editor of national and foreign banks in 1970 and 1980.
"It was a wonderful editor and popular," said Robert Gibson, editor of Foreign times when Williams Department. "It was very important in their relations with foreign correspondents, who felt they had a sympathetic ear and get your copy of" respect "."
After years in charge of Foreign Affairs, Williams "wanted his chance in the field," said Alvin Shuster, the former Director of Foreign Affairs that the time has been given. "It was a first-class desktop publisher, and I knew it would be a first class correspondent. Some said it was a game of chance, including Nick, but clearly was not."
Between 1985 and 1992, Williams reported the Asian region, while in Bangkok and in the Middle East, Nicosia, Cyprus. When going from an estimated 60% of their time on the road.
"Whether covering the Gulf war or a revolt in the Philippines, the unit was excellent," said Schuster. "He knew exactly what to do, and foreign correspondents did very well."
In an essay of 1992, his experiences in the field, Williams said that "framework" to make scenes that have been engraved in his memory.
Among those who have "the Shia Muslim women in black xador" out of an Iraqi prison, "laments heard screaming and waiting for me that their husbands and children were living inside the high walls that was better than expected.
That His men were imprisoned and not among the thousands of Shiite rebels shot down by military helicopters to Saddam Hussein's helicopter as it has re-established its control over the country. "
That same year, Williams was asked to return to Los Angeles. He was 55 years old and his family said it was "too old to dodge the bullets again." He said his years abroad were the best of his life.
He joined the office of international affairs section to change the World Report on the week and was assistant director of the editorial pages before retiring in 2002 after being diagnosed with withAlzheimer.
Nick Van Boddie Williams Jr. was born on 12 February 1937, in Santa Monica and grew up in Pasadena.
From what is now Claremont McKenna College, he earned a degree in business and married artist Gerri the Bauhaus in 1960. He worked in the newspaper San Diego Union-Sun and Timesbefore theChicago moving to Los Angeles in late 1966 to join the time.
The correspondent also excel in buying, Shuster said: If you are asked "for a plate of blue and white shopping for your next visit to Vietnam, he had a letter full of the history of the cup and costs $ 20 . "
Father Williams, who was editor of The Times 1958-1971, died at 85 in 1992.
Williams survived by his wife, Gerri, of Lake Kiowa, Texas, daughters Maggie Sykes of Lake Kiowa, and Nan Williams, Flat Top, Tennessee, two grandchildren and his sister Sue Williams of Trinidad, California, Ricky Davis and Arcata.
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