Word: devoss
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protected by neither the Paris Accords nor even the status of common criminals. Late last month, amid rumors that peace-keeping teams would inspect the notorious "tiger cages" on the South Vietnamese prison island of Con Son, Saigon set free 124 victims of "political re-education." TIME Correspondent David DeVoss interviewed several of them at a Cholon hospital and cabled this report...
...city. Restoration of the country's capital-the home, until the quake, of 400,000 of Nicaragua's 2,000,000 population-now poses both problems and opportunities for the family that had dictator ially governed the country for 40 years. TIME Correspondent David DeVoss toured the ravaged city last week and sent this report...
...Photographer Larry Burrows and TIME Correspondent John Cantwell have been killed in action. Photographer Sean Flynn, on assignment for TIME, has been missing in Cambodia since 1969. Among the wounded: LIFE Photographers Tim Page and Co Rentmeester, TIME Photographer Le Minn and TIME Correspondents Don Sider, David Greenway, David DeVoss and John Mulliken...
...When DeVoss left Saigon last week with two veteran combat photographers, Le Minh and Dirck Halstead, he was hoping to enter An Loc with the rescue force's first wave. But the advancing column was still ten miles south of its objective when the enemy mortar rounds started to fall...
Despite his wounds and frustration, DeVoss is more fortunate than many casualties among the press corps. LIFE Photographer Robert Capa was killed back in 1954, when the war belonged to France and seemed far away. Since 1965 alone, 34 journalists have died in Indochina, including TIME Correspondent John Cantwell and LIFE Photographer Larry Burrows. Another 19 are still missing, all but two of them lost in Cambodia...