A journalist with a view, and a lesson not fully learned

Former Associated Press writer Hari S. Maniam and American consul Robert Stebbins recall their parts in the Japanese Red Army hostage crisis in Kuala Lumpur, 1975.

There's nothing like an office with the right view, when you’re a journalist covering a breaking story. And that’s just what Associated Press writer Hari S. Maniam had, during the Japanese Red Army siege of the American Embassy here in August 1975.