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He was a radio floor reporter at the Republican and Democratic Conventions in 1968, after serving as an assistant to NBC's bureau chief in Vietnam.
  
A native of Michigan, Tucker served in the United States Army as an officer, from 1960 to 1962.

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[[caption]] HAL WALKER [[/caption]]
  
Since being assigned to the CBS News Bureau in Bonn in December 1977, Hal Walker's reports have included the economic plight of United States soldiers in Germany, due to the decline of the dollar, and President Carter's visit to Bonn for a summit meeting last July. 
  
Prior to his current assignment, Walked had been based at the CBS News Bureau in Washington since 1966, when he joined CBS News as a general assignment reporter. He was named a Correspondent in September 1969. While in Washington, Walker filed many reports on Capitol Hill activities, covered campus disorders at Cornell University (1969), filed a special report on the riot-torn areas of Washington "One Year Later" for the "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite," reported on housing discrimination against black GIs in Germany, and covered the trial of Col. Oran K. Henderson, the last court martial growing out of the My Lai massacre.
  
Walker was the reporter on the two-hour CBS News Special "Four Portraits in Black," a study of the lives and aspirations of four middle-class black families (April 1974), and reported to two broadcasts of the seven-part "Of Black America" series, "In Search of a Past" and "Portrait in Black and White," during the summer of 1968. In addition, he was a member of the CBS News team reporting on the Democratic and Republican Conventions during Campaigns '68 and '72.

During the summer of 1969, Walker was an adjunct professor of journalism in the summer program for members of minority groups at the Columbia University School of Journalism.

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[[caption]] RANDY DANIELS [[/caption]]

Randy Daniels has been covering events in Africa from his base at the CBS News bureau in Nairobi, Kenya, since it was opened in April 1977. Daniel's many reports from various African nations include one war in Zaire (1977-78); the Eritrean war (June 1977); President Carter's tour of Africa (March 1978); the annual Organization of African Unity meeting, held in Khartoum (July 1978); the funeral of the late President of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta (August 1978); and Premier Fidel Castro's tour of Africa (September 1978).
  
Prior to his current assignment, Daniels was based at the CBS News Chicago Bureau.
  
Daniels joined the Chicago bureau on a freelance basis in October 1972. The next month, he began participating in the CBS News broadcast associate program, a reportorial on-the-job training program for minority groups. He was subsequently named a CBS News Reporter in June 1974, and a Correspondent in February 1976.
  
Prior to joining CBS News, Daniels was a report for WVON radio in Chicago (1969-72), and a reporter-producer for Public Broadcasting station WSIU-TV in Carbondale, Ill. While at WSIU, he produced and co-hosted "Black Folks Then and Now," a one-hour special.
  
Daniels received two degrees—in political science and in radio and television communications—from Southern Illinois University, in 1972.
  
Born in Chicago, he is married to the former Jacqueline Hurd. They have one daughter, Toure Kai, born in Kenya.

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