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...York Bureau Chief Donald Neff and Photographer David Hume Kennerly heard the bulletin in Miami early Sunday morning: a Congressman had been killed on a remote jungle airstrip in Guyana. Neff and Kennerly, who had worked together in Saigon, were en route to another assignment in South America, but they chartered a jet and were in Georgetown, the capital of Guyana, by nightfall...
...dawn Monday, as news of more murders and suicides spread, scores of reporters and photographers scrambled to arrange transportation for the trip to Jonestown. Only one plane, with its required Guyanese pilot, was available for the journey. After hours of haggling, Neff and Kennerly finally got the plane and permission from the Guyana government to land at the bloodied site. The plane turned out to be the same five-passenger Cessna that had been waiting for Congressman Ryan on the night of his murder. Blood still stained the seat belts, and two bullet holes were punched in the doors
...horrors of that camp nearly defy description," says Neff. "Kennerly and I helped report the Viet Nam War, but we'd never seen anything remotely like this." In the first days only 14 reporters and photographers reached Jonestown, three from TIME. The third was Matthew Naythons, a practicing doctor from San Francisco who doubles as a news photographer. Naythons had been scheduled to accompany Congressman Ryan's party but had been held back by a visa problem...
...sooner had President Jimmy Carter announced his historic, late Sunday-night summit agreement between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin than TIME'S correspondents were off to report on the consequences for this week's issue. Donald Neff joined Secretary of State Cyrus Vance on a flight to Jordan; Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn accompanied Sadat on his trip home; Dean Fischer interviewed Begin in New York City and then flew to Israel to await his arrival; Christopher Ogden and Laurence I. Barrett reported from Washington...
First Citizen Begin Donald Neff s assessment of Menachem Begin's first year in office as Israeli Prime Minister [July 3] shows only that the former freedom fighter and first cit izen of Israel can't be controlled by his so-called allies. Begin has never been any man's puppet. His dream of an Eretz Yisrael is his life, and on the vital issue of peace and security for his people, there will be no dictation of policy from non-Israeli sources...