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Such has been the Falklands situation, where the British and Argentine military authorities, not to mention the remote location of the islands, have made the job of the world's photojournalists frustrating in the extreme. One of the few who have succeeded at all is Sygma Agency Photographer J.C. Criton. On assignment for TIME, Criton was able to get on and off the Falklands two weeks ago and send his pictures out of Argentina. His vivid photographs of Argentine troops and weapons on the Falklands were a highlight of last week's TIME. They were the only recent...
...best magazine photographers go everywhere, shoot everything. For the most part they are represented by one of the six major agencies- Sygma, Magnum, Gamma-Liaison, Sipa, Black Star and Contact- which, for a fee (usually 40% to 50% of sales), play mother and salesman, lining up buyers throughout the world. Most of the agencies have their headquarters in Paris, and Paris is also home base for many photojournalists. "Geographically, it's the ideal place to be," says Robert Pledge, president of Contact. "It's halfway between Washington Moscow, Hamburg and Madrid...
...first to make it through was Sygma Photographer Henri Bureau, 41, who was on assignment for TIME. He had photographed Solidarity's last meeting at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk just before martial law was imposed, then made his way back to Warsaw, taking pictures of troop movements through the window of his car. Leaving all his equipment behind, Bureau stuffed 30 rolls of film in his snow boots and rode an unheated train in subzero weather to Berlin with L'Express Correspondent Jacques Renard. Said Bureau: "The East Germans searched everything. They looked under seats with flashlights...
...launch a full-scale "pacification" campaign in order to prevent Afghanistan from becoming a hostile Islamic republic, many U.S. experts were betting that the Soviets would put that campaign in the hands of a nationalistic general, Mohammed Aslam Watanjar. The notion of the Soviets flying Karmal home from V-SYGMA Eastern Europe seemed too ham handed and provocative, given the Communists' obvious need to broaden the political base of the Kabul regime. An armed Soviet takeover of the country was discounted for the same reason. More prescient intelligence would have enabled the U.S. to mount a diplomatic offensive...
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