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udrey Galex was a
student in Cairo in
1978 when Anwar
Sadat returned from negoti-
ating peace with Israel at
Camp David.
"There were throngs of
people to welcome him. You
could sense the hope for the
aid from the United States,
and the genuine relief that
another war wasn't around
the corner," she says.
David Schechter was a
television news producer in
1986 when he covered the
funeral of Zafer al-Masri, the
slain Israel-appointed mayor
of Nablus. So crowded was
the scene, the only way of
getting a good shot of the fu-
neral was from the top of a
wall which also was crowded
with people, he says.
"Hands came down and
took our equipment and
hauled us up the wall. That
was the moment I thought,
`What's a nice Jewish boy
doing in a place like this?'
But that thought passed out
of my mind very quickly."
Their business brought
Galex and Schechter together
10 years ago. And it keeps
them together at the Cable
News Network in Atlanta
and at home. The couple
married five years ago.
Today, they can be found
at various hours at Atlanta's
CNN Center, where
Schechter is weekend
assignment editor for the
Cable News Network and
Galex is a producer, writer
and on-air personality of
CNN's Future Watch.
United, Continental and
Metrovision cable television
companies bring the work of
the couple into the homes of
metro Detroit residents
every day.
Galex and Schechter met 10
years ago. Galex was work-
ing on John Anderson's
third-party presidential
campaign; Schechter was a
reporter for the Quad-City
Times of Iowa and northern
Illinois.
While the only time most
couples rendezvous is at
home after work, Galex and
Schechter say bumping into
each other in the hallway or
making quick contact by
computer has long been a
way of life: CNN is the four-
-
David Holzel is staff writer for
the Atlanta Jewish Times
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FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1990
Audrey Galex and David Schechter: Focusing on the present and future.
th news operation where the
couple has worked together
or in proximity to one an-
other.
"Every time we changed
jobs, we swore we weren't
going to work in the same
place. But this is the way it
seems it's always going to
be," the 31-year-old Galex
says.
"It's tough at this point to
imagine not having that
quick contact," adds
Schechter, 34.
Galex grew up in what she
describes as a fairly well-to-do
home in Rock Island, Ill.,
across the Mississippi River
from Davenport. While
Schechter was cutting his
teeth as a night police
reporter, she was studying
international relations at
American University in
Washington, D.C. In 1978
she set off for her junior year
at the American University
in Cairo.
"I wanted to understand
the way others who were less
fortunate lived," she says of
Cairo's attraction.
Having visited Israel brief-
ly during high school, Galex
was drawn to the Arab world
for an additional reason.
"There was something very
alluring about people who
were supposed to be my
blood enemy," she says.
Originally, she had want-
ed to study in Beirut. Leb-
anon was then in the fourth
year of its civil war and the
capital already had sustain-
ed an Israeli air raid. "My
parents forbade me," she
says, still disappointed at
the lost opportunity .
So she satisfied her
wanderlust by traveling
through the Arab world that
year — to Jordan, to Syria
("It was the only time I de-
nied being Jewish") and
later to Tunisia and
Morocco.
But it was in Cairo that
Galex spent most of her
time. She says it is difficult
to survive in the sprawling,
congested Egyptian capital.
"You gotta love it. You
learn to negotiate it. You
have to strategize how to
cross the street because it's
so crowded. You just have to
take things a little slower."
After the Anderson cam-
paign, Galex went to Nor-
thwestern to obtain a
master's degree in jour-
nalism. In 1983, when
Schechter moved to Kansas
City, where he had been
hired as news assignment
editor for a local television
station, Galex went with
him. She found work as pro-
ducer of a TV consumer pro-
gram.