I applied through the French embassy in Tokyo, and got a terse “Cher Lieutenant” letter that said the rumour was false, but I could join the Foreign Legion for five years as a private. !My greatest regret is causing pain or sorrow for those left behind — Yvonne, Casey, Guy and Dani and the grandkids — all of whom made life worthwhile.I regret, too, the nuisance for them of a funeral which they may hope will be well attended, but which I know won’t be, because I tend to be a loner who treated most people decently, but who never encouraged intimacy.My reservations are meaningless and will be ignored.Pity I wasn’t a drinker, then everyone could feel superior and forgive a weakness.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Toronto SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.There was an error, please provide a valid email address.A welcome email is on its way. I worked on construction sites during the war and at 15 ran away from home to join the merchant navy, but was rejected. We divorced and she bettered herself by marrying a judge, and living happily.

Author of the article: Peter Worthington. These could be found in columnists if one knew where to look.I had been looking forward to the trial, which I thought was winnable. And then Lumumba giving a press conference while under house arrest — and escaping at night to attend rallies in his name.More memories: Ojukwu, in Biafra, with brand-new shoes and smoking State Express cigarettes, as Ben Wicks was scolded for having his hands in his pocket while in the presence of “His Excellency.”Of Albert Schweitzer whacking a leper not-so-gently on the head for not chipping faster at a huge rock from which he was making gravel.Of Laos, boasting proportionately the most Mercedes cars in the world in a country with only 24 km of paved roads — and a dead king being preserved in a tree trunk filled with honey for one year until burial.Of Dr. Tom Dooley, sick with terminal cancer, wanting me to rent an aircraft for him to fly to his jungle hospital for a farewell visit.Of meeting the Beatles in Hong Kong — and not knowing who they were or why the city was going berserk over their presence there.A fond memory is the RCMP searching my cluttered office for a letter by the head of RCMP security to then-prime minister Trudeau complaining against the PM’s dictum that security checks of Quebecers should not include questions about separatism.Bob Johnstone of the CBC, looking through the glass window with other TV journalists, quipped that the office was so cluttered “the RCMP may not find a letter, but they may lose a Mountie.”After checking under the coffee table, chairs, behind pictures on the wall, rifling through books for the letter, they found it a couple of hours later in the upper left hand drawer of my desk.These, and more, are the products of a career in journalism, and are part of what made it worthwhile. Worthington wrote in his obituary that he realized “for journalists, reconnaissance can… Continue Reading Peter Worthington: 10 facts about the journalist who wrote his own obituary


He had been orphaned at age 10, worked as a water boy in a Mexican silver mine and witnessed his half-brother, superintendent at the mine, killed by the Mexican bandit Pancho Villa. Everything free for the Tely.It was an offer MacFarlane couldn’t refuse.

I later married a Tely reporter, Yvonne Crittenden, whose husband had run off with another Tely staffer (Caligula’s court in those days), and we all benefitted accordingly.When President John Kennedy was assassinated, I was one of a team of Tely reporters dispatched to Washington. In time for Dien Bien Phu, perhaps. I returned to UBC (on veteran credits), got a Bachelor of Arts degree and applied to the Vancouver Province to be a sports writer. With another reporter, I hired a taxi in Damascus and we headed east across the roadless desert to Baghdad. I was first to report from Iraq.At the same time, British paratroopers had landed in Jordan to protect King Hussein from a coup, supposedly being planned by Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser.I headed to Amman, after interviewing Brig-Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem who staged the coup in Iraq.An hour after arriving in Amman, I went to the king’s palace to apply for an interview and got mixed up with a group of German businessmen who were to meet King Hussein.

I was considered unqualified for that, but was hired as a news reporter at $35 a month.

Before that, the Tely wanted to open a bureau in China.
I later got a commission and at 18 was the youngest and least competent sub-lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve.On discharge in Vancouver, I used veteran credits to attend the University of British Columbia.

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