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...side effect that the militiamen had not counted on: it stirred up the crowd of foreign journalists on hand. They pressed harder for advantage and constantly confronted the rifle barrels of the angry gunmen. The most remarkable case was that of a Lebanese Shi'ite driver working for Newsweek. The driver rode onto the tarmac in a food van and, pretending to be a relative of one of the hijackers, proceeded to the steps of the plane. "Trick! Journalist!" a gunman screamed as he spotted the man's camera. As the driver fled from the scene, the gunman shot...
...Amal spokesman abruptly ended the proceedings, which only triggered more shouting and shoving. Militiamen pounced on photographers and reporters, smashing cameras and seizing tape recorders. Fifteen minutes later, after the journalists promised to maintain calm, the session was resumed. In another incident, a Lebanese Shi'ite driver working for Newsweek reached the plane by passing himself off as a relative of the hijackers'. As the driver returned to the terminal, Amal militiamen discovered the ruse and angrily fired bullets over the heads of about 40 journalists...
TIME also received, for the fifth consecutive year, the Olivier Rebbot Award,* presented by Newsweek, for the best photographic reporting from abroad. David Burnett won for TIME stories on the Ethiopian famine and the 40th anniversary of D-day, along with coverage of Jamaica for National Geographic. TIME Picture Editor Arnold H. Drapkin summed up the double win: "Although TIME is not generally thought of as a photo magazine, these awards, year after year, underscore TIME's pre-eminence in the field of photojournalism...
FOOTNOTE: *The Capa medal is named for a LIFE photographer killed in Indochina in 1954. Rebbot was fatally wounded in El Salvador on a 1981 assignment for Newsweek...
...another reversal for the press last week, a federal appeals panel in St. Louis overturned a judge's decision and reinstated a $10 million libel suit by South Dakota Governor William Janklow against Newsweek magazine. In a February 1983 article, Newsweek--which is owned by the Washington Post Co.--recounted Indian Activist Dennis Banks' charge that Janklow had raped a 15-year-old girl, and reported that federal authorities had found insufficient evidence to prosecute. Janklow argued that the article then falsely implied he had prosecuted Banks on riot and assault charges in reprisal for the rape accusation. A federal...