Word: jordaning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...athletes consider the annual World Championships more important than the Olympics anyway, because the participants are assured of the best competition and because athletics, not politics, are the focus. Only at the Olympics are the athletes thought of first as representatives of their nations and not as individuals. Michael Jordan becomes the United States' Michael Jordan Sebastian Coe becomes Britain's Sebastian Coe. And, in the same way all the great Soviet performers become to many Americans, simply the enemy...
TIME's Peter Jordan also was presented with a major O.P.C. honor: the Olivier Rebbot Award for best photographic reporting from abroad for his pictures of the bombing of the Marine headquarters in Beirut last October and his coverage of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's election campaign last spring. Nachtwey and Jordan join a long list of TIME photographers who have won these distinguished Overseas Press Club awards and risked their lives to give TIME readers a level of news photojournalism no other publication can rival...
...Wall Street Journal, which has broadened its definition of business-related coverage, won for international reporting by Foreign Editor Karen Elliott House, 36, who probed Middle East politics in interviews with Jordan's King Hussein, and for commentary by Vermont Royster, 70, who also won in 1953 for editorial writing. Royster's subjects included the Viet Nam War veterans' right to pride and the legacy of Martin Luther. Other awards: in general local reporting, to Long Island's Newsday for examining federal intervention in the medical treatment of severely handicapped children, most notably in the much...
...short history, Israel has occupied portions of Jordan, Syria, Egypt and Lebanon. It has bombed Iraq, invaded Lebanon and passively stood by while refugees were massacred. Yet not one leader has asked the obvious question: Why does Israel object to defensive weapons for Jordan and Saudi Arabia...
...shop floor. Back in 1981, he stood in Longwy and pledged that the steel industry would be the "spearhead" of an industrial revival in France. Harsh reality has turned that promise to ashes, but his audience that day will not let him forget it. -By John Nielsen. Reported by Jordan Bonfante/Paris and Thomas A. Sanctm/Longwy