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...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...
...brave and daring, in an old-fashioned way that is rare nowadays. In Viet Nam, some 30 cameramen were killed or listed as missing covering history's most photographed war More photojournalists died than generals," says Magnum Executive Raymond Depardon. Many of them took their credo from Robert Capa, the legendary photographer best remembered for his stunning LIFE shots of the troops landing on Dday, "If your pictures aren't good enough," he used to say, "you aren't cose enough." In 1954, Capa became the first photographer killed during the Indo-China...
...reporting was done by Moscow Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan and Reporter-Researcher John Kohan, who spent months gathering detailed impressions of life in the U.S.S.R. In addition, the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa Gold Medal went last week to Photographer Steve McCurry for his dramatic series of TIME photographs of the war in Afghanistan...
...says one senior British official, "the Iraqis do not have the capa bility to mount an expeditionary force into central Iran." Nor, in the British assessment, is Baghdad eager to occupy all of oil-rich Khuzistan. Such a venture would alienate neighboring Kuwait and the other conservative gulf states that Saddam has been courting...
...office cream and the fourth martini. He also advised her to emulate Garbo by keeping her garrulous mouth shut. On a movie set she stood up to directors; in real life she was easily led. Someone even had to tell her to abandon her marriage. Combat Photographer Robert Capa, whom she met in Paris after the war, tried. They loved each other, but he was not the marrying sort...