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Reporting a shooting war, no matter how historic or dramatic the conflict, involves less glory than sheer danger. Last week, on the first day of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, TIME Photographer Barry Iverson was heading south on the coast road between Damur and Sidon when he was caught in an Israeli naval bombardment. An exploding shell wounded him severely in the leg. In shock from the loss of blood, he was taken to a Palestinian hospital, then transferred to the American University Hospital in Beirut, where his leg was surgically pieced together and encased in a steel skeleton cast...
...this would be going on," says Tim Langley, director of the South Dakota Peace and Justice Center. "But the sense has grown here that we are entering a new phase of the arms race, that we are getting ready to fight a nuclear war." In St. Paul, Minn., Bonnie Iverson, 37, a mother of two, is busy collecting signatures for her state's freeze resolution. "I get nervous about going door to door," she confides, "but it's a cause I believe in. It's the notion of what would happen to the land and all life. If nuclear...
Earlier that day Photographer Barry Iverson was watching a parade of Egyptian weaponry through his telephoto lens. He heard gunfire. In moments, he was staring at Sadat's fallen presidential photographer, who had "blood streaming from his face." Later, via telephone with NBC's Tom Brokaw in New York, Iverson was one of the first eyewitnesses to describe the scene to an anxious U.S. TV audience. Meanwhile, Wynn and Cairo Bureau Chief Robert C. Wurmstedt lined up an interview with Egypt's new leader, Hosni Mubarak, and Correspondents Roland Flamini and Jack White arrived from Bonn...
...guitar is God's own instrument, John Major will be giving a recital of works for solo guitar, including premieres of "Improbable Rose" by Tison Street and "Iverson Songs" by Tim Mukherjee in Sanders Theatre. The surroundings will be grand but the Almighty might not be able to attend. However, the performance, starting at 8:30 should be worthwhile anyway...
...drug is also enabling doctors to take some tentative yet encouraging steps toward treating Huntington's chorea, a genetically-determined degenerative nerve disease that strikes its vic tims at about the age of 40 and kills them within 15 years. A group headed by Dr. Leslie Iverson, 36, of the British Medical Research Council's Division of Neurochemical Pharmacology, has been studying the chemical changes in brains of Huntington's victims. The team has found that victims of the disease have lower-than-normal quantities of the transmitter gamma amino butyric acid (GABA) and occasionally-elevated amounts...