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...story out. The night that a "state of war" was declared by the Polish government, Correspondents Richard Hornik and Gregory Wierzynski and Photographer Henri Bureau were already in Gdansk, covering what turned out to be the last meeting of the Solidarity union's national commission. Photographer David Burnett, on assignment for TIME, was in Warsaw. In the capital, at least at first, near normality reigned-sunshine, snow and only a few soldiers. "Getting the right picture to show the mood was extremely difficult," reported Burnett. "There wasn't an overwhelming military presence you could photograph. There was only...
Photographer Bureau, also on assignment for TIME, became one of the first journalists to get out of Poland. To avert suspicion, he left all his camera equipment in Burnett's care and departed by train for West Berlin Monday night (see Press). With him went 30 precious rolls of his and Burnett's film. Burnett himself left by train two days later. Correspondent Wierzynski, who arrived in West Berlin by train at week's end, reports that "news gathering in Warsaw came down to finding Polish friends who might know something-an account from a person recently...
...bring back images of war, disaster and suffering has had over time, a desensitizing effect. Says Floris de Bonneville, Gamma's picture editor in Paris: "The real revolution in photojournalism is in the readers' fatigue. They are no longer shocked or surprised by anything." Contact Partner David Burnett, 34, understood this when he went to Cambodia to photograph refugees. "It is easy to make pictures of people starving," he says "I wanted to take a picture that people would look at again." His shot of a weary and resigned Cambodian refugee holding an infant was an expressionist masterpiece...
...which is presented five times in pop, rock, acid rock, country and gospel versions. Warbling it among a huge cast will be 55 entertainment and sports celebrities, ranging from tuneful Olivia Newton-John to frog-flat Paul Newman. (Among others: John Travolta, Cheryl Tiegs, Tracy Austin, Muhammad Ali, Carol Burnett.) A week later the NBC campaign will close in a Bob Hope special, with a call by the comedian for a continuing, nationwide antidrug alert...
...chief from 1970 to 1973, covered Helms during his first Senate campaign in 1972 and at the Republican convention last year. This time Kane spent five days with Helms at home and on the job and accompanied him to a Sunday-morning church service. Kane was treated to some BURNETT-CONTACT Southern hospitality when he joined the Senator and some of his cronies for shrimp jambalaya, poker and stories at the Raleigh antebellum mansion of North Carolina Superior Court Judge Pou Bailey. Kane found the evening "fun but unprofitable": he lost...