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...terrific personal compulsion to do it." In the past three years, that impulse has repeatedly taken Nachtwey into some of the main cockpits of violence: Central America, the Middle East, Northern Ireland. Last year, on assignment for TIME, he spent nearly six months in Central America, mostly in Nicaragua; he was in Lebanon for much of the rest of the year. Since then, he has taken his cameras back to Central America. Last month he was with Nicaraguan contra guerrillas who fought a bloody battle against Sandinista troops to capture a border hamlet. Nachtwey's pictures of that fighting...
Last week Nachtwey accepted the Overseas Press Club's (O.P.C.) Robert Capa Gold Medal for his photography of both combatants and civilians in Nicaragua and Lebanon. The award, named after the famed LIFE photographer who died in 1954 in Indochina, is one of the most prestigious in photojournalism because it is given for overseas reporting "requiring exceptional courage and enterprise...
...always supported Israel's right to exist with security," Jackson says. "But unless you can talk with adversaries, you cannot help the ally." He would try to curtail U.S. investments in South Africa, while increasing foreign aid to other African nations. Jackson is unconvinced that Cuba and Nicaragua are fomenting revolution in Central America. He favors "normalizing" relations with the Marxist-led Sandinista regime in Nicaragua, which he says is "on the right side of history," and withdrawing all troops from the region. On the other hand, he does not rule out sending U.S. troops to the Persian Gulf...
...late 1981 as a minor campaign of covert harassment aimed at disrupting Communist subversion in the Western Hemisphere. But last week it was difficult to tell who was more inconvenienced as a result of the Administration's not-so-secret war in Central America, the Sandinista government of Nicaragua or the Reagan Administration...
...northern Nicaragua, the war simmered on. Units of the contra army known as the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (F.D.N.) continued to launch raids from their Honduran base camps into Sandinista territory. The extent of contra successes remained difficult to determine. The rebels claim to control nearly 6,000 sq. mi. of Nicaraguan territory, with strong support from the peasantry, and to operate freely in an additional 2,700-sq.mi. area. But one of the F.D.N.'s leaders, Edgar Chamorro Coronel, declared to TIME last week that "to achieve a victory we would need not 8,000 fighters...