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Mike Shuster, who covered the world for NPR for three decades, has died at 76

As a foreign correspondent, Mike Shuster was eyewitness to historic events from Moscow to the Mideast. In the U.S., his coverage of the John Gotti trial led to a momentous FCC ruling on expletives.
Mike Shuster's long career took him all over the world, starting in the early 1970s in Africa. He joined NPR in 1980 and filed more than 3,000 stories over the next three decades.

Editor's note: Daniel C. Sneider, a lecturer of East Asian studies at Stanford University, former foreign correspondent and friend of Mike Shuster's, was the Moscow bureau chief for the Christian Science Monitor in the 1990s when Shuster was based there. He offers this appreciation:

Mike Shuster, an award-winning foreign and diplomatic correspondent for National Public Radio, died Monday. During more than three decades as a reporter and an editor, his work spanned the world and made him an

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