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...illustrate the story, TIME flew four photographers to the scene. By late Friday they had sent much of their film by commercial and chartered jets to New York City. On Saturday at 3 a.m., Deputy Picture Editor Michele Stephenson began the process of examining the 50 photographic rolls. The cover picture was selected at 4:45 a.m. Says Stephenson: "We worked on layouts through the night. The images were devastating...
Pledges of outside aid came just as quickly. Along with the U.S. Army rescue helicopters, Washington's Ambassador to Colombia Charles A. Gillespie released an immediate $25,000 to local authorities. Within 36 hours the first of three U.S. C-130 Hercules transport aircraft flew from Howard Air Force Base in Panama to a Colombian military airport at Palanquero bearing some 500 family-size tents. In Washington, Jay Morris, deputy administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, said that "we have been working around the clock to monitor and respond to the emergency requirements of the survivors." Administration officials...
...Irish Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald dared to gamble again, this time on a cautious scheme devised to provide the basis for an armistice, if not a settlement, in one of the world's most tenacious conflicts. After a year of discussions between British and Irish negotiators, the two leaders flew to an Anglo-Irish summit at the 188-year-old Hillsborough Castle, twelve miles to the south of Belfast. There they signed an agreement giving the Irish government an official voice in the running of Northern Ireland for the first time. In return, the FitzGerald government strongly recognized the desire...
...under way between Israel and Jordan. That news came as Jordan extended an olive branch to Syria, thus perhaps paving the way for a Syrian role in Hussein's peace brokering. While the Israeli crisis was in full cry, Terry Waite, an adviser to Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie, flew to Beirut to try to negotiate the release of four American hostages...
...else, certainly kept audiences curious. In one scene, woman presumably playing the children’s mother came to center stage in floral prints, only to be knocked down by her tennis-playing husband. Perhaps in a commentary on the complex family and career burdens on women, tennis balls flew across the stage as the exasperated mother futilely tried to control her children amid the chaos, eventually succumbing to being undressed by her children. In fact, by the end of the composition, all 4 dancers had managed to somehow find a reason to strip down to their stage underwear...