Word: capa
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Last week Nachtwey accepted the Overseas Press Club's (O.P.C.) Robert Capa Gold Medal for his photography of both combatants and civilians in Nicaragua and Lebanon. The award, named after the famed LIFE photographer who died in 1954 in Indochina, is one of the most prestigious in photojournalism because it is given for overseas reporting "requiring exceptional courage and enterprise...
...think about the danger. But when a first-rate photographer is killed, as Newsweek's John Hoagland was in El Salvador in March, that's when you realize the great degree of risk we all court. Hoagland was no cowboy. Almost none of us is. The Robert Capa medal doesn't reward cowboys. It is given for practicing good journalism where risk is intrinsic...
...peace with their God. I have never seen in any face such joy as radiated from the faces of the people of Paris this morning. This is no day for restraint, and I could not write with restraint if I wanted to. Your correspondent and your photographer Bob Capa drove into Paris with eyes that would not stay dry, and we were no more ashamed of it than were the people who wept as they embraced...
...Overseas Press Club last week presented its 1981 award for best magazine interpretation of foreign affairs to TIME Associate Editor Walter Isaacson and Correspondents Bruce van Voorst and Johanna McGeary for their cover story "Arming the World" (Oct. 26, 1981). The esteemed Robert Capa gold medal for photographic reporting was awarded to TIME'S Rudi Frey for his intimate coverage of Poland's Solidarity movement and the imposition of martial law. The Olivier Rebbot award for magazine photography from abroad went to Nakram Gadel Karim for his photos in TIME of the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat...
...testimony last week, the Pentagon's top weapons man believes it is perilously close to becoming a reality. Richard DeLauer, chief of research and engineering for the Defense Department, predicts that the Soviet Union may be ready to put into orbit as early as next year laser weapons capa ble of destroying U.S. spy and communications satellites. By 1990, he expects the Soviets to have "a large, permanent, manned, orbital space complex capable of effectively attacking ground, sea and air targets from space." DeLauer's views were inadvertently leaked when Republican Congressman Ken Kramer of Colorado, thinking...