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Unfortunately, again, premature and tragic deaths are not new to sports. On New Year's Eve 1972, in a visit to deliver disaster-relief supplies to his native Nicaragua, Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente died in a plane crash. Clemente had been named the World Series MVP the previous year and would become the first Hispanic player inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame...
Chayes also represented the government of Nicaragua in its World Court case against the United States' support of the contras in the 1980s...
Slaughter, who worked with Chayes on the Nicaragua case, said his decision to take on the U.S. government was controversial at the time...
James Nachtwey, a contract photographer for TIME and one of the best-known photojournalists of the past 20 years, works along those edges. His passport has been stamped in some of the most chaotic spots of the postwar era--Northern Ireland, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Lebanon, Afghanistan--places where history always seems to finish its work in a room where there is human waste spilled across the concrete floor and blood smeared on the wall and the bare light bulb of reason is not much help or comfort...